Conky 1.22.2-pre- not accepting wifi variables

[JHBlackstone]

when launched from terminal, I get:

$ conky -d
conky: desktop window (0x114) is root window
conky: window type - normal
conky: drawing to created window (0x800002)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: can't parse color 'lightmagenta'
conky: unknown variable '$wireless_bitrate'
conky: unknown variable '$wireless_essid'
conky: unknown variable '$wireless_link_qual_perc'
conky: unknown variable '$wireless_link_bar'
conky: unknown variable '$wireless_bitrate'
conky: unknown variable '$wireless_essid'
conky: unknown variable '$wireless_link_qual_perc'
conky: unknown variable '$wireless_link_bar'
conky: forked to background, pid is 15148
firebat@batgirl-E-475M:~$
conky: FOUND: wayland
conky: FOUND: x11
conky: FOUND: file
conky: FOUND: ncurses
conky: FOUND: console
conky: 'GNOME' wayland session running
^C

and here's my code for the network part:

${color orange}${font DejaVu Sans Mono:bold:size=10}◊NETWORK ${hr 2}
#${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Local IPs:${alignr}External IP:
#${execi 1000 ip a | grep inet | grep -vw lo | grep -v inet6 | cut -d / -f1 | sed 's/[^0-9.]*//g'} ${alignr}${execi 1000 wget -q -O- http://ipecho.net/plain; echo}
${color light blue}${voffset -4}${font DejaVu Sans Mono:bitalic:size=10}Local Area Network
${color lightgray}${font DejaVu Sans Mono:normal:size=8}${voffset -4}Down: ${downspeed enp0s25} ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed enp0s25}
${color green}${downspeedgraph enp0s25 20,150 } ${alignr}${voffset -4}${upspeedgraph enp0s25 20,150 }$color${voffset -4}
${color light blue}${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10}USB wifi ${color orange}${wireless_bitrate wlp0s29f7u4}
${color lightgray}${voffset -4}${font DejaVu Sans Mono:normal:size=8}Down: ${downspeed wlp0s29f7u4} ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed wlp0s29f7u4}
${color green}${downspeedgraph wlp0s29f7u4 15,150 } ${voffset 4} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlp0s29f7u4 15,150 }$color${voffset 4}
${color yellow}${wireless_essid wlp0s29f7u4} ${color red}${alignr}Signal: ${color orange}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlp0s29f7u4}% ${wireless_link_bar 4,100 wlp0s29f7u4}
${color light blue}${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10}PCI wifi ${color orange}${wireless_bitrate wlp2s0}
${color lightgray}${voffset -4}${font DejaVu Sans Mono:normal:size=8}Down: ${downspeed wlp2s0} ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed wlp2s0}
${color green}${downspeedgraph wlp2s0 15,150 } ${voffset 4} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlp2s0 15,150 }$color${voffset 4}
${color yellow}${wireless_essid wlp2s0} ${color red}${alignr}Signal: ${color orange}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlp2s0}% ${wireless_link_bar 4,100 wlp2s0}

the LAN only has up/down graph and speeds, but wireless has no bitrate, ID, signal strength, or bargraph but also does have up/down graph and speeds so some working...

anybody know what has changed to have these variable that work on my ubuntu 24.04 not work here for fedora 43?

[JHBlackstone]

fedora stopped supporting wireless variables - dumped libiw back at fc35, and libiw is required to get conky wireless variables to work - SCRAP!!!

... sometimes redhat gets lazy, but so does conical :-P