This must be the most confusing bug report I have ever read. Can you try to explain in few clear words what the problem actually is? The only network variables that don't need an interface to be explicity specified are downspeedgraph and upspeedgraph (for which the default is eth0), so I guess you refer to these? If the problem is instead that you don't want to have to specify the network interface being used, have you tried to use the if_up variable to cover for the most possible cases (see the conky man page for details)?
** Changed in: conky (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Conky doesn't display bandwith being used by default as it should, often related to the name of your network device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382610 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs