Re: Bluetooth Capture & Ubuntu

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On May 27, 2010, at 6:14 AM, Alejandro von Mankowski wrote:

> when I start Wireshark in Ubuntu there is no Bluetooth device listed,
> but when I start Wireshark in Fedora it is. Any ideas why this could be?
> They have the same versions installed. Wireshark (1.2.7) libpcap (1.0.0)

It takes more than libpcap and a libpcap-based application to capture traffic - it takes, ultimately, support in the 
kernel for AF_BLUETOOTH SOCK_RAW sockets with BTPROTO_HCI as the protocol.  What version of the *kernel* is installed?

It also requires a version of libpcap that was configured to support Bluetooth sniffing.  I don't know how Ubuntu 
configures libpcap, nor whether it has whatever package installs the /usr/include/bluetooth include directory, upon 
which the libpcap code to do Bluetooth sniffing depends.
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