Hello, im trying to get wireshark to work properly I run the program as root and i get no output. I know my wireless card can handle promiscuous mode hence i can use commview for wifi on my windows partition. id post what my card is except im unsure of the proper way of doing so, if anyone could enlighten me id appreciate it. Thanks,
log into root and use the command: lspci
you should see your wifi hardware information there.
thank you, now to figure our why i have no output, the card is a Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100. I can see the packets sent from my computer fine just no promiscuous mode apparently. Any ideas?
Hmm not off the top of my head, not much when it comes to the advanced networking stuff. :’(
Well thank you anyways, hopefully someone who has troubleshot wireshark will stop in 
Hi
I have not trouble running wireshark with promiscuous set in
preferences and capturing data… I’m on 11.3 M3 but from memory on
this netbook (without booting into 11.2 or SLED11) it’s not been an
issue for me with ath9k driver.
I’m wondering if a post in the wirless subforum may glean more info,
maybe it’s a linux driver issue?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 (i586) Kernel 2.6.33-5-desktop
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Very true, I posted one there just yesterday with a bit of success i was hoping to drum up some more responses by reviving this one.
actually is there anyway to move this thread over? and i misread wireless for some reason, i posted in applications.
Hi
Can you tell me what release of openSUSE your using and the version of
wireshark?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.45-0.1-default
up 1 day 2:09, 3 users, load average: 0.23, 0.12, 0.09
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.53
Wireshark is version 1.2.6 and opensuse is 11.2
Hi
So that’s from the network:utilities repository? Did you get the
libcap1 as well?
So when you start via the menu icon, does it ask for the root password?
else what happens when you start via;
/usr/bin/xdg-su -c /usr/bin/wireshark
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.53
Yes it asks for the root pass when going through kicker, as far as the terminal it starts and runs fine but without any output and i did get the libcap1. thanks,
When wireshark is running, does iwconfig show both wlanX and a wlanXmon interface?
heres the output from iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"\xAC\x86!+\xAA\x1AU\xA2\xBEp\xB5s;\x04\xD36\x94\xB3\xAF\xE2\xF0\xE4\x9EO2\x15I\xFD\x82N\xA9"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
On 03/09/2010 12:36 AM, odbrew wrote:
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> heres the output from iwconfig
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn
> ESSID:"\xAC\x86!+\xAA\x1AU\xA2\xBEp\xB5s;\x04\xD36\x94\xB3\xAF\xE2\xF0\xE4\x9EO2\x15I\xFD\x82N\xA9"
I don’t know if the 2.6.31 kernel will support monitor mode. On my 11.2 system,
I’m running a 2.6.33 kernel, which gives me the wlan0mon interface.
Go to http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/, select either i586
(if you have a 32-bit system) or x86_64 (for 64-bit) and download the
kernel-desktop-2.6.33.5-…rpm. Install it with the command
sudo rpm -iv kernel-desktop…rpm
This will add a new option to your GRUB menu. If you boot the 2.6.33 one,
wireshark should work. At least it does for me on a 32-bit system with wireless
driver b43.
kernel updated, no dice 
On 03/09/2010 01:36 AM, odbrew wrote:
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> kernel updated, no dice
Do you now get the wlanXmon interface?
unfortunately not
Hi
What happens if you put the interface into monitor mode first;
iwconfig <interface> mode monitor
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.45-0.1-default
up 1 day 17:36, 5 users, load average: 0.56, 0.37, 0.29
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here is the output
linux-yesc:/home/verate # iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
Error for wireless request “Set Mode” (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy.