Wireshark on Snow Leopard

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 03:51, Mike Zanker wrote:

> I've installed MacPorts 1.8.0 on a new Snow Leopard installation  
> (Mac Pro 1,1; 32-bit kernel). Wireshark builds fine and appears to  
> run but nothing is captured (even though running as root). There is  
> an error message:
>
> merlin:~ mike$ sudo tshark -i en0
> Password:
> Could not open file: 'eap.xml', error: No such file or directory
> Capturing on en0
>
> This eap.xml error was apparently fixed in 1.2.2 (MacPorts has  
> 1.2.1) and the 1.2.2 binary from wireshark.org captures just fine,  
> but I'd much rather have my own MacPorts-combined version :)

I have filed a ticket requesting the port be updated:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21472



> Is the eap.xml error just a red herring? Has anybody else got  
> MacPorts wireshark working?