[Robert Ruzitschka <ruzitschkar@xxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot for your help, Ian!

Using sudo, it worked

Obviously I have no idea what I am doing, I thought it would be 
sufficient to start ethereal as root (as it is on Solaris)!

Regards, Robert


Am Donnerstag, 25.09.03, um 18:19 Uhr (Europe/Vienna) schrieb Ian 
Schorr:

> 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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