Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Trouble running ethereal 0.7.8

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:25:19 -0600
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 03:16:51PM -0600, Thomas Linden wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> If I want to start capturing packets, I am getting the following error
> message from ethereal:
> "There are no network interfaces that can be opened.
>  Please check to make sure you have sufficient permission
>  to capture packets."
> 
> I have started ethereal as user root, my network is up and running, I can
> run tcpdump, I cannot find out what could be wrong.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea?

What OS and OS version are you running?  What does the output of
ifconfig (which might be /sbin/ifconfig) show?

--gilbert