Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal GUI cannot see interface in capture dialogue but can still capture on it

[Jeff <jv.goff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

 

I have a problem where tethereal can sniff the wifi (ath0) interface with no problem (as can airodump etc) but it doesnt show up in the ethereal GUI under capture -> interfaces. Unsurprisingly it doesnt show up using ethereal -D or tethereal -D , i.e.

 

[root@wmn root]# tethereal -D
1. eth0
2. any (Pseudo-device that captures on all interfaces)
3. lo
<wheres my ath0 !>

 

Can anyone offer a suggestion on how to remedy this - I know I can workaround it by capturing to a file and reading it into the GUI, but I am interested to fix the underlying issue.

 

Tried to google it for a while and found an old post about whether or not pcap was looking in /proc/net/dev - but the interface is definately in /proc/net/dev, i.e.

 

[root@wmn-linux root]# cat /proc/net/dev | <tidy up>

Interface -|  Receive    blah blah

lo:            6854352        100432  0  <snip>
eth0:        37122055       193776  0
wifi0:        10966936       136840  0
ath0:        30015820       136567  0
 

[root@wmn-linux root]# cat /proc/net/wireless
Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Missed | WE
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beacon | 18
  ath0: 0004    0.  161.  161.       0      0      0      0      0        0
 

Environment info: RH9 (2.4.32 on i386) + madwifi-ng + pcap 0.9.4 + ethereal 0.10.14 + atheros pci card. Ethereal and pcap were installed from source.

 

thanks !

-jeff