I've run into a sort of catch 22.

I installed wireshark via apt-get on my Eee 1008HA, but when it is launched, it does not allow any capture interfaces.

I think this is because the shortcut created in my applications paneldoes not start it as root. Other distros always had two shortcuts, one to run as root, one to run as a normal user. Anyways, this isn't a big deal, I can sudo.

So I went into terminal, typed in "sudo wireshark" and it popped up, as root - everything seems in order.

I was then able to capture on my wireless interface with no issues.

However, saving that data presents a problem. If I try and specify my usual home folder as the location for the capture to be saved, I get an error that permission was denied, which seems odd since while that folder is not the root user's home folder, wireshark is running as root and should be able to do pretty much whatever it wants.

How can I get wireshark set up so I can both capture _and_ save the .pcap files I generate? I don't want to save them in /

I'm running karmic koala, the full output of uname -a is: Linux ruckus-laptop 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux.

You need to su to root within the normal user account and setup airmon-ng and use airodump-ng.

It took me a few to find the answer when I first started.

You don't have SELinux installed and enabled, do you?

One workaround might be to create a folder that's accessible to both "root" and your normal user.

Another workaround might be to run "sudo bash", then do whatever you want (as "root"), instead of "sudo wireshark".

Is it possible to use a similiar command to put the card into promosicuous mode?

Most of the time I'm capturing, I only want traffic from one AP. (My logic is that way would save space on the HD and processor overhead, but if you think it's better to grab everything floating around.

Also, I plan to mess around with arp spoofing, and correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't airmon only create wireless interfaces?

It should be. I had to look for the commands myself with the aircrack suite forums and mailing lists.

I mean - would it even be the aircrack suite that puts the card in promiscuous mode if I'm going to be using it to sniff wired traffic? Or is such a distinction irrelevant?