When I open Wireshark I see no wifi interface. How can I fix this?

asked 2018-11-04 22:50:23 +0000

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I first downloaded Wireshark I think around 2016 and, after opening Wireshark, I could capture packets by hitting whatever interfaces were available. I'm starting to use Wireshark again after a while and when I open it, the only interface available is the USBPcap1 interface. I want to use the Wifi interface but it's not showing. How can I fix this?

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Your question is rather confusing. Instead of "filter", do you mean "interface"?

cmaynard gravatar imagecmaynard ( 2018-11-05 04:19:20 +0000 )edit

Yes sorry about that I meant interface.

siddiakb gravatar imagesiddiakb ( 2018-11-05 05:22:21 +0000 )edit

Is this on Windows (as "USBPcap1" suggests it is)?

Guy Harris gravatar imageGuy Harris ( 2018-11-05 07:22:06 +0000 )edit

Yes sorry about that I meant interface.

Fixed.

Guy Harris gravatar imageGuy Harris ( 2018-11-05 07:22:35 +0000 )edit

@Guy Harris yes this is on Windows

siddiakb gravatar imagesiddiakb ( 2018-11-05 13:45:53 +0000 )edit

Can you start Wireshark, open the Help -> About Wireshark dialog and cut and paste the contents of the "Wireshark" tab here?

grahamb gravatar imagegrahamb ( 2018-11-05 20:52:09 +0000 )edit

@grahamb

Version 2.6.4 (v2.6.4-0-g29d48ec8) 

Copyright 1998-2018 Gerald Combs <[email protected]> and contributors. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 

Compiled (64-bit) with Qt 5.9.5, with WinPcap (4_1_3), with GLib 2.42.0, with zlib 1.2.11, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.14.0, with Lua 5.2.4, with GnuTLS 3.4.11, with Gcrypt 1.7.6, with MIT Kerberos, with MaxMind DB resolver, with nghttp2 1.14.0, with LZ4, with Snappy, with libxml2 2.9.4, with QtMultimedia, with AirPcap, with SBC, with SpanDSP, with bcg729. 

Running on 64-bit Windows 10, build 17134, with Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2830 @ 2.16GHz ...
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siddiakb gravatar imagesiddiakb ( 2018-11-05 22:31:32 +0000 )edit

From your info we can see you have WinPcap installed, it's possible that the driver isn't running, can you try this from an elevated (admin) cmd prompt to first check the state of the driver and then start it:

sc qc npf
sc start npf

please post the output from the above commands.

grahamb gravatar imagegrahamb ( 2018-11-06 10:31:41 +0000 )edit
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