Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] "capture raw USB traffic" functionality not working?
Aha, thank you! I assumed that the "latest CVS (>0.9.5)" meant "get a
release later than 0.9.5, which at the time of this writing was HEAD
of CVS."
I'll build it from CVS and try again.
Thanks,
Joshua
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:06:17PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Joshua Pollack wrote:
>
> > (Apologies if this is received twice, I don't think I was on the list
> > before sending the first time.)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm interested in using Wireshark to capture raw USB traffic, but I
> > can't seem to get this feature to work. Has anyone on this list ever
> > managed to do this before?
> >
> > The page on the wiki
> > http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB
> >
> > says that to use this, you must load the usbmon kernel module, which
> > lets you get access to the data via debugfs, and also mount debugfs at
> > /sys/kernel/debug.
>
> It *also* says
>
> The latest libpcap CVS (post 0.9.5) is required for capturing raw USB
> traffic.
>
> I've updated it to make it a bit clearer:
>
> The latest libpcap CVS (not an 0.9.x release or earlier release) is
> required for capturing raw USB traffic.
>
> No libpcap releases so far have included the USB capture code, so no
> Linux distribution is likely to be offering it as its standard libpcap.
>
> (A release containing the USB capture support will probably come out
> in the not-too-distant future; I can't say when that'll be, though. I
> also can't say when any Linux distributions will pick that release up.)
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