Hello,
I have a problem where tethereal can sniff the wifi (ath0) interface with no problem (as can airodump etc) but it doesnt show up in the ethereal GUI under capture -> interfaces. Unsurprisingly it doesnt show up using ethereal -D or tethereal -D ,
i.e.
[root@wmn root]# tethereal -D
1. eth0
2. any (Pseudo-device that captures on all interfaces)
3. lo
<wheres my ath0 !>
Can anyone offer a suggestion on how to remedy this - I know I can workaround it by capturing to a file and reading it into the GUI, but I am interested to fix the underlying issue.
Tried to google it for a while and found an old post about whether or not pcap was looking in /proc/net/dev - but the interface is definately in /proc/net/dev, i.e.
[root@wmn-linux root]# cat /proc/net/dev | <tidy up>
Interface -| Receive blah blah
lo: 6854352 100432 0 <snip>
eth0: 37122055 193776 0
wifi0: 10966936 136840 0
ath0: 30015820 136567 0
[root@wmn-linux root]# cat /proc/net/wireless
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 18
ath0: 0004 0. 161. 161. 0 0 0 0 0 0
Environment info: RH9 (2.4.32 on i386) + madwifi-ng + pcap 0.9.4 + ethereal 0.10.14 + atheros pci card. Ethereal and pcap were installed from source.
thanks !
-jeff