Re: Capturing Wi-Fi traffic to/from Modem

[GaryT <gary () taig net>]

Two weeks ago on 13/07/14 22:47, Evan Huus wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:47 AM, GaryT <gary () taig net> wrote:
[BIG SNIP]
> > Have downloaded that page [1], made a PDF.  Will read it and hopefully
> > something will gel.... but the old brain is not nimble any more.

> I believe the short version is:
>
> 1. Run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common" and select that Yes,
> non-superusers should be able to capture packets.
> 2. Add your user to the "wireshark" group (not sure if there's a UI for
> this in settings somewhere, if not, use "usermod -a -G wireshark
> $username", possibly with sudo in front.
> 3. Log out and back in for that to take effect.

It worked, Evan.
First attempt something went wrong, probably typing. Then a couple of 
days later I tried again and it worked.
Then I had to drop it again until today.

See my next post re: events that followed - also see text file attached 
to that post.

Many thanks
GaryT



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