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No interfaces in wireshark

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Hello all,

I installed wireshark on Ubuntu 10.4 with Synaptic, but in Capture Options I don't see any interfaces? Some one know what is wrong here?

Thanks for the support Sincerely Herman

asked 06 Jan '11, 03:13

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edited 28 Feb '12, 20:14

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Your dumpcap program needs elevated privileges. Either look to setuid dumpcap as root, create a wireshark group with elevated privileges, setgid dumpcap to that group, and add yourself to that group. Another, but bad, option is to run wireshark with root privileges.

There's a good blog entry by Gerald on this issue.

answered 06 Jan '11, 15:02

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