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Wireshark cannot find interface to nRF51 dongle



I have used an nRF 51 dongle for capturing BLE packets on my Mac using Wireshark,, but it no longer works.
The only system change that I can recall that might affect this is that
I recently upgraded to Mac OSX Catalina Version 10.15.5, which was an incremental update.

The usb connection and dongle must be in good shape, because I am to run nRF Connect v3.4.1 - Bluetooth Low Energy successfully.

I am using nrf_sniffer_for_bluetooth_le_3.0.0_129d2b3.zip
To be sure that the problem is not related to Wireshark or its configuration, I have been testing with:
extcap/nrf_sniifer_ble.sh --extcap-interfaces

And, it is never able to find an interface.  It does not generate an error, but does not find an interface.
Can you suggest a solution and/or additional tests to run?

Thank you !

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