PPC Wireshark 1.0 won't display interfaces

Mark Lucas mllists at arc.co.uk
Sun Apr 13 23:29:18 PDT 2008


>On 13/04/08 18:00, Mark Lucas wrote:
>> On a PPC machine running 10.5.2, having done a clean install of
>> MacPorts and then Wireshark 1.0.0_0+darwin_9, Wireshark fails to
>> display any interfaces in the Interfaces dialog or any other
>> preferences dialog .
>>
>> dumpcap -D and wireshark - D  from the command line both list all the interfaces.
>>
>> When I try to capture I get a dialog saying ;-
>> Couldn't run  /opt/local/share/dumpcap in child process. No such file or directory
>
>Wireshark must be run via sudo to sniff interfaces.
>
>Gufo

Thanks, yes I know. sudo -b wireshark has always worked for me. I have wireshark 1.0 working on an intel iMac so I'm assuming this is a problem specific to PPC. the point is my PPC version of Wireshark simply does not list any of the available interfaces in any of its config windows.
 


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