Hello Jorge,
Regarding the Gdk warning:
I suppose your workstation has a Portuguese keyboard and uses the Portuguese
locale. Try setting the locale to English and give it another try. Anyway,
this Gdk warning is not critical so you can safely ignore it.
Regarding the permissions on the capture interface, I'll quote from a reply
from Guy Harris:
Do a "sudo chown Gurue /dev/bpf*" (or whatever your login name is on your
Mac). Once you've done that, you can (at least until the machine is
rebooted) run Ethereal or Tethereal or tcpdump or... as yourself, rather
than as root. (Mac OS X's "/dev" is implemented with devfs, so the special
files aren't persistent across reboots, and it's an older devfs so it can't
be configured to set up particular devices with particular owners and
permissions, so any ownership or permission changes you make don't survive
across reboots.)
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Olivier
-----Original Message-----
From: Jorge A.Ferraz de Oliveira
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