[Ian Schorr <spamcontrol2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you superuser when you run Ethereal?  Are you running "sudo 
ethereal"?

Without proper access Ethereal can't capture from the interface.

Ian


On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 08:20 AM, Robert Ruzitschka wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I installed Ethereal on my machine via Fink (should guarantee that all
> necessary libraries are at the right place). That seemed to work ok, 
> Ethereal
> starts up (I start it as root, of course) but I still get no network 
> interfaces
> in the drop down menues of the capture window.
>
> I tried to enter the network interface manually (en0) with no success. 
> An
> error message pops up, telling me that the interface is not found and 
> this
> might be caused by permission problems.
>
> btw, tcpdump works on en0.
>
> Any suggstions?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Regards, Robert
>
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