Hello, I am using wireshark on a laptop do I need to install anything extra to get it to capture packets going through my wireless network card? When I go to intrefaces it says there is no interfaces. I am running wiresahrk 1.8.2 on Ubuntu. Thanks, asked 05 Oct '12, 06:58  rob123 edited 05 Oct '12, 11:31  Guy Harris ♦♦ |
2 Answers:
You should either run Wireshark as root, or have a look on document http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges for other ways to capture packets as non-root user. answered 05 Oct '12, 09:23  Jurij Sikorsky |
See this similar question: ubuntu machine no interfaces listed answered 05 Oct '12, 12:12  grahamb ♦ |
Note that running as root is not recommended, hence the warnings that Wireshark issues when you do so.
<rant>And it would be great if the distribtion packagers would provide the means to easily setup these privileges...</rant> Thanks Balint for the Debian package.