Hi!
I followed the recipe described on nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE to flash the sniffer .hex file into my dongle, install and configure the wireshard.
When I start the capture of BLE packages using the wireshark, the dongles green lad start to blink BUT not appear on the wireshark. After some time, my linux closes the application.
Some information: My machine is a linux mint 20.3 with 8GB RAM and a lot of SSD space.
Hi,
rdmeneze said:One thing that I noticed is that on the wireshark is appearing the device as /dev/ttyACM0-3.6
Similar on my end:
but at my end it starts up as expected:
I also have the similar config profiles as you have:
Kind regards,
Håkon
Hi!
I installed the udev rules and restarted the machine. The problem persist.
look my wireshark: 
rdias@iluvatar:~/.config/wireshark$ tree . . ├── extcap │ ├── nrf_sniffer_ble.bat │ ├── nrf_sniffer_ble.py │ ├── nrf_sniffer_ble.sh │ ├── requirements.txt │ └── SnifferAPI │ ├── CaptureFiles.py │ ├── Devices.py │ ├── Exceptions.py │ ├── Filelock.py │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── Logger.py │ ├── Notifications.py │ ├── Packet.py │ ├── Pcap.py │ ├── __pycache__ │ │ ├── CaptureFiles.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Devices.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Exceptions.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Filelock.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── __init__.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Logger.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Notifications.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Packet.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Pcap.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── SnifferCollector.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Sniffer.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Types.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── UART.cpython-310.pyc │ │ └── version.cpython-310.pyc │ ├── SnifferCollector.py │ ├── Sniffer.py │ ├── Types.py │ ├── UART.py │ └── version.py ├── profiles │ └── Profile_nRF_Sniffer_Bluetooth_LE │ ├── preferences │ └── recent ├── recent └── recent_common 5 directories, 36 files
Hi!
I installed the udev rules and restarted the machine. The problem persist.
look my wireshark:
rdias@iluvatar:~/.config/wireshark$ tree . . ├── extcap │ ├── nrf_sniffer_ble.bat │ ├── nrf_sniffer_ble.py │ ├── nrf_sniffer_ble.sh │ ├── requirements.txt │ └── SnifferAPI │ ├── CaptureFiles.py │ ├── Devices.py │ ├── Exceptions.py │ ├── Filelock.py │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── Logger.py │ ├── Notifications.py │ ├── Packet.py │ ├── Pcap.py │ ├── __pycache__ │ │ ├── CaptureFiles.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Devices.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Exceptions.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Filelock.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── __init__.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Logger.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Notifications.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Packet.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Pcap.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── SnifferCollector.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Sniffer.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── Types.cpython-310.pyc │ │ ├── UART.cpython-310.pyc │ │ └── version.cpython-310.pyc │ ├── SnifferCollector.py │ ├── Sniffer.py │ ├── Types.py │ ├── UART.py │ └── version.py ├── profiles │ └── Profile_nRF_Sniffer_Bluetooth_LE │ ├── preferences │ └── recent ├── recent └── recent_common 5 directories, 36 files
Hi,
I installed mint in a VM, and noticed that when I ran wireshark as root, it started sniffing as expected.
Can you try to add your user to the wireshark and dialout group?
sudo usermod -a -G wireshark youruser
sudo usermod -a -G dialout youruser
Then reboot and see if it starts to sniff as expected.
This allowed my user to run wireshark properly:
Kind regards,
Håkon
HI!
I followed your advices and it worked fine.
Many thanks!
We can flag this issue as solved. =)
