Hello, I just have a question about wireshark, when i try to capture packets i have no output except what is sent from my computer. I know my card can go into promiscuous mode since i was using commview for wifi on my windows partition. Anyone know of a solution ?
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:46:01 +0000, odbrew wrote:
> Hello, I just have a question about wireshark, when i try to capture
> packets i have no output except what is sent from my computer. I know
> my card can go into promiscuous mode since i was using commview for wifi
> on my windows partition. Anyone know of a solution ?
Are you running Wireshark as root? (This is one app that really needs to
be run as root to work properly).
If you are, then some additional information about your system would be
in order - particularly around the network card in use.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
I tried going to a terminal and running wireshark as root, this is the message i received (wireshark:5354): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Is there a way of running root outside the terminal? thanks,
Hello odbrew,
Try running it with this command:
kdesu wireshark
This will run wireshark as root.
Good luck!
kdesu works 
ill have to remember that command, bad news is still no output. so next noob question what is the command to retrieve hardware info?
bumpity bump bump
its an intel wireless 5100 it in my sig now
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:36:01 +0000, odbrew wrote:
> its an intel wireless 5100 it in my sig now
So if you run /sbin/ifconfig, that’ll tell you what the network
interfaces are on your system. When you start a capture, specify the
wireless interface and that should get the capture started.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator