[Jorge A.Ferraz de Oliveira <jafoliv001@xxxxxxx>]

Dear friends:

Using Administrator previleges, I've installed the XDarwin provided by the XFree86 Project on my Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 Macintosh (Mac OS X, version 10.2.8, 768 MB of memory) using FinkCommander.  I've also installed Ethereal using, again, the FinkCommander application.  Everything went smooth.  However, when I start Ethereal under an xterm window I get the following message:

"Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library"

Nevertheless, the Ethereal application starts all right.  However, it fails to capture anything.  In effect, the pop down Interface field on the Capture window does not display any choice of available interfaces and if I write down, for instance, en1 (my Ethernet Adaptor) and click OK, then it displays the following error:

"The capture session could not be initiated ((no devices found) /dev/bpf0: Permission denied).
Please check you have sufficient permissions and that you have the proper interface or pipe specified."

I'm not Unix savvy, nevertheless, I consulted the ethereal documentation, tried a "tcpdump" command and got the following message:

[Gurue:~] admin% tcpdump
tcpdump: (no devices found) /dev/bpf0: Permission denied
[Gurue:~] admin%

Any hints of what may be wrong on my system and could I do about it?

I would very much appreciate any help anybody might provide me.

Best regards

Jorge

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