Academy's Bluetooth LE Fundamentals, Lesson 6: Problems with enabling the nRF Sniffer Capture Tool in Wireshark

I have installed the Wireshark 3.6.1, 64 bit on my Windows 10 PC and I followed the steps listed under "Installing the nRF Sniffer Capture Tool", namely:

1. I installed the Python requirements by opening a command window and navigating to the folder: sniffer_software/extcap, and then by typing the following command:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt.

2. I copied the nRF Sniffer Capture Tool into Wireshark by copying the contents of of the sniffer_software/extcap folder into the folder: c:\Users\....\Roaming\Wireshark\extcap

3. I tried to enable the nRF Sniffer Capture Tool in Wireshark by

3.1 Refreshing the Interfaces in Wireshark, by selecting: Capture>Refresh Interfaces

3.2 By selecting: View>Interface Toolbars>nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE - as can be seen on the attached screenshot.

Once I did that, I was supposed to see that the nRF Sniffer is displayed as one of the interfaces on the Wireshark capture screen - but this did NOT happen.

I then tried to perform Step 3 activities in installing the nRF Sniffer Capture Tool to make sure that the nRF Sniffer files can be run correctly - as advised by the "Note".

So, I took these steps:

(a) I opened a command window in Wireshark's folder: Wireshark\extcap

(b) I run the nRF Sniffer Tool to list available interfaces by typing: nrf_sniffer_ble.bat --extcap-interfaces, in the wireshark\extcap folder

And I saw a series of strings, as expected.  I attach that "List of strings" for your info.

I then tried again to enable the nRF Sniffer Capture Tool in Wireshark by:

3.1 Refreshing the Interfaces in Wireshark, by selecting: Capture>Refresh Interfaces

3.2 By selecting: View>Interface Toolbars>nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE - (as can be seen on the attached screenshot).

However, I still could not see that the nRF Sniffer is displayed as one of the interfaces on the Wireshark capture screen.

How can this problem be resolved?

Regards,

JM

Screenshot 24 April 2023.docx

List of strings 24-April-2023.docx