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Ubuntu Wireshark Network cards not showing up Fix

This post will go over the “bug” that happens when you launch Wireshark in Ubuntu. When you load Wireshark in Ubuntu by default the program will load but no network cards are selectable!

When I first saw this I figured my network card/drivers weren’t compatible with wireshark. I did some searching around and it turns out that the issue is caused by not running Wireshark as root.

If you want to run Wireshark in Ubuntu you will need to run it as root. To do this you can either run Wireshark from the command line using:

  1. sudo wireshark
  2. Change the shortcut to the program to run as root

NOTE – If you can’t run the program as root from the command line using “Sudo wireshark” it’s most likely caused by you not giving “sudo” a password. You can do this by typing: “sudo passwd”. You will have to enter a password for sudo.

At the command line type “sudo wireshark” and the program should work as expected. If you don’t want to have to type that in every time all you have to do is either edit the existing shortcut icon or make a new one and change it’s properties. To run a program as root from gnome interface you need to preface the command with “gksudo”. To do this just right click the shortcut and select “properties”. This will open a new window. Click on the command line. Leave the existing “wireshark” command there. Copy and paste “gksudo” before the command. Make sure there is a space between “gksudo” and “wireshark”.

Double click the icon to verify that it works. Hope this helped you to get the network cards in Wireshark to show up for you 🙂

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    Dell 600D WiFi working on Ubuntu 10.10

    This tutorial will go over how to get the Wifi working with Ubuntu 10.10 and a Dell 600D laptop. This tutorial is going to assume that you have your laptop plugged into the wall with ethernet with a live internet connection before starting the install of Ubuntu.

    If a any time it asks if you want to apply upgrades or updates apply everything.

    Once inside Ubunutu there will be a bunch more updates. Apply all of these through the updater.

    By default ubuntu doesn’t give “su” a password. If you want to use things like “sudu” or “su” commands then you need to give it a password. To do this you are going to want to type:

     su password

    Follow the prompts and enter a new password.

    Because you are following my HOW TO exactly you should now be at the part of installing these files. Using firefox download the files. The default location is “user\Downloads”.

    Open b43-fwcutter_011-1_i386.deb By right clicking and selecting ‘Open with Archive Manager’

    Extract b43-fwcutter from the /usr/bin folder of the b43-fwcutter_011-1_i386.deb archive.  Leave this in the USER\Downloads folder with the rest of the downloaded files.

    Now open a terminal and type these commands one by one:

    1. sudo ~/b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
    2. tar xfvj ~/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
    3. sudo ~/b43-fwcutter –unsupported -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o
    4. sudo chmod o+rx /lib/firmware/b43 /lib/firmware/b43legacy

     

    You can now look at your network cards. It should be up an running. Thanks to all the help in this forum for helping me set this up.

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    Add Ubuntu workstation into your Windows Active Directory

    The good points about this kind of setup is as follows:

    • Single username/password combination across entire network.
    • Enforces password policies

    Likewise Open enables Linux, Unix and Mac authentication on a Microsoft network using Active Directory. A user can now interactively log in to the Linux, Unix or Mac machine using Active Directory credentials, and can access any kerberized services that the non-Windows machine hosts can.

    Open / install likewise

    sudo apt-get update 

    

    sudo apt-get install likewise-open 

    

    sudo domainjoin-cli join fqdn.of.your.domain Administrator
     

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    Open defaults

    sudo update-rc.d likewise-open defaults 

    

    sudo /etc/init.d/likewise-open start
     

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    Reboot and login with domain\user credentials

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    Check settings within terminal you can check your settings

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    Check active directory for your new created object

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