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Wireshark don’t recognise the interface on yosemite

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Hi All,

the current version 1.8.15 and the developer version 1.12.0rc3 don't recognize the interface when you install it on Yosemite OS X 10.10 Beta 1.

I have try with XQuartz 2.7.6 and Wireshark 1.8.15 and XQuartz 2.7.7_rc1 with Wireshark 1.12.0rc3 no effect.

Please help me to fix this issue

All the Best

DAVIDE RISI [email protected]

asked 27 Jul '14, 02:32

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I'm having the same problem. You can work around it by running wireshark via the terminal and using sudo. so you'd do

sudo wireshark

answered 20 Aug '14, 08:45

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Don't run Wireshark as root. There are millions of lines of code in Wireshark that may be susceptible to the very network traffic you're capturing. In the mean-time does the released version of 1.12 work any better?

(20 Aug '14, 08:58) grahamb ♦

No change on 1.12 ... Still cannot get any interfaces. also when doing ls -l /dev/bpf* it shows those owned root group wheel ...

ls -l /dev/bpf* crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 23, 0 Aug 20 10:13 /dev/bpf0 crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 23, 1 Aug 19 08:04 /dev/bpf1 crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 23, 2 Aug 20 09:30 /dev/bpf2 crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 23, 3 Aug 20 08:17 /dev/bpf3 crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 4 Aug 20 08:17 /dev/bpf4

chmodBPF appears to be installed though.

sudo launchctl list | egrep ChmodBPF Password: - 0 org.wireshark.ChmodBPF

(20 Aug '14, 09:04) jbergoon