Two ideas: 1. Did you "sudo" when running WireShark? 2. If that doesn't work, my students did a nice project[1] that runs *tcpdump* on the bone to collect data and passes the data to WireShark (running on the host) to display the data.
--Mark [1] http://elinux.org/ECE497_Project_WireShark On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:34:47 AM UTC-5, K. Kuroda wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm currently looking for information regarding the possibility to use the > BBB as an wifi packet-sniffering device. > When carried out with the next composition, the error of came out. > > OS : Ubuntu 12.04 > Sniffering soft : Wireshark > USB wifi chipset : rt8070 > error message : > The capabilities of the capture device "wlan0" could not be obtained (That > device doesn't support monitor mode). > Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and that > you have the proper interface or pipe specified. > Try using airmon-ng, as suggested by CaptureSetup/WLAN in the Wireshark > Wiki. > > > In the past, with the same composition on notebook PC I could capture > packets. > What can I do for sniffering packets by BBB? > > WIth kind regards > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
