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Enable bluetooth interface in wireshark

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I am trying to capture bluetooth packets using wireshark , I connected my bluetooth dongle to ubuntu PC and started wireshark but i am able to see ethernet and wireless interface but not able to see bluetooth interface like bluetooth0 or bluetooth1.

Can anyone help me how to enable bluetooth interface in wireshark??????

asked 17 Mar '14, 06:49

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edited 17 Mar '14, 23:18

Anyone anyhelp ??

(17 Mar '14, 22:01) sreeram1443

If you select the "About Wireshark" menu item under "Help", what does Wireshark display - in particular, what does it show for "with libpcap" in the "Running on" section?

(18 Mar '14, 01:28) Guy Harris ♦♦

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It contains following information.....

Running on Linux 3.5.0-46-generic, with locale en_IN, with libpcap version 1.3.0, with libz 1.2.7, GnuTLS 2.12.14, Gcrypt 1.5.0, without AirPcap.

(18 Mar '14, 04:00) sreeram1443

What's printed if you run the command sudo tcpdump -D?

(18 Mar '14, 11:50) Guy Harris ♦♦

Here:

[email protected]:/home/igx# tcpdump -D
1.eth0
2.wlan0
3.pan1
4.any (Pseudo-device that captures on all interfaces)
5.lo

In this pan1 is printing while runnig bluetooth-manager other wise pan1 is not printing.This pan1 is not showing bluetooth packets.

(18 Mar '14, 21:45) sreeram1443

Do you want to capture Bluetooth frames or IP frames transmitted over your Bluetooth interface?

(18 Mar '14, 23:02) Kurt Knochner ♦
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That appears to be a libpcap problem, not a Wireshark problem (Wireshark uses libpcap for capturing); the libpcap you're using was not built with Bluetooth support.

You will have to ask Canonical about this.

answered 19 Mar '14, 00:16

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