Re: Wireshark problem report

[Martin Visser <martinvisser99 () gmail com>]

Unfortunately Debian/Ubuntu has chosen to use "safe" defaults rather than
"sane" ones when they packaged wireshark. As per
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=761461 the issue will be that
Wireshark doesn't have privileges to open interfaces for capture.

While the quick-and-dirty (and potentially unsafe) way is to just run "sudo
wireshark" from the command-line, I use the "Other Linux based systems or
other installation methods" as specified in
 http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges

Regards, Martin

MartinVisser99 () gmail com


On 12 June 2011 03:28, Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 05:52:06AM -0700, Whom it may concern wrote:
>
> > I am able to capture packets on interface wlan0 with tcpdump, but
> > Wireshark does not see this interface, nor will it use it, even if
> > specified manually in the Preferences. My OS is Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid,
> > with kernel 2.6.32-31-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP.
> >
> > It appears to be a problem with Wireshark, and not the interface
> > device driver.
>
> Do you see any interfaces in Wireshark?  Wireshark and tcpdump both use
> libpcap for their live capturing/interface lists.
>
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