Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Extcap

[Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

2 suggestions for you. First, is you initiate extcap via console, do you run it as root? And is wireshark running as non-root? If yo, you might need capture privileges as suggested by the wireshark wiki page. Second, yes the directories are not very intuitive. Usually if you run it from a build, it will use run/extcap . If you run it from an install, it will use the /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib/... paths. 

Have you tried putting it in run/extcap? Also, please ensure that the script is executable.

If everything fails, you could create a small script in each directory with basically the following content:

#!/bin/sh

pwd > /tmp/path.txt

and read out the path, extcap will execute the script, but do nothing, as it will not find the correct output.

regards,

Roland

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dario Lombardo <dario.lombardo.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Michal Labedzki <michal.labedzki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Try to do:
$ export WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY=1
$ ./run/wireshark

Yes, it's what I usually do.

 

Check also your config.h (build directory): grep EXTCAP  config.h

I have something like that:
#define EXTCAP_DIR "/pkg/wireshark/lib/wireshark/extcap/"
#define HAVE_EXTCAP 1

$ grep EXTCAP config.h

#define EXTCAP_DIR "/usr/local/lib/wireshark/extcap/"

#define HAVE_EXTCAP 1

That's strange. When I run wireshark with the export, I see $HOME/wireshark/run/extcap as extcap plugin dir.

Anyway, I copied the androiddump into /usr/local/lib/wireshark/extcap/, but nothing changes.

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