On May 27, 2010, at 6:14 AM, Alejandro von Mankowski wrote:
> when I start Wireshark in Ubuntu there is no Bluetooth device listed,
> but when I start Wireshark in Fedora it is. Any ideas why this could be?
> They have the same versions installed. Wireshark (1.2.7) libpcap (1.0.0)
It takes more than libpcap and a libpcap-based application to capture traffic - it takes, ultimately, support in the kernel for AF_BLUETOOTH SOCK_RAW sockets with BTPROTO_HCI as the protocol. What version of the *kernel* is installed?
It also requires a version of libpcap that was configured to support Bluetooth sniffing. I don't know how Ubuntu configures libpcap, nor whether it has whatever package installs the /usr/include/bluetooth include directory, upon which the libpcap code to do Bluetooth sniffing depends.
