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Old 10-12-2009, 09:51 AM   #1
obomz
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Getting Etherape to work on OpenSuse 11.1


Hi,

I have a Sony VAIO VGN-C2SL which has a intel wireless network card and also a wired ethernet card; and i just installed OpenSuse 11.1 on it.

Each time i try to run etherape on my new OpenSuse 11.1 installation i get the following error message: Error getting device: no suitable device found.

I'd appreciate it if i could get to know what to do in order to fix tis.

Thanks
 
Old 10-12-2009, 10:10 PM   #2
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Are you running it as root? I'm not sure why but it has to be ran as root.
 
Old 10-13-2009, 05:07 PM   #3
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Hi,
thanks for your replies, but i thought that it was not a safe idea to login as root in linux? so how am i going to run this program as root if i am not expected for my own safety to login as root?
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Old 10-14-2009, 10:16 AM   #4
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Well, sometimes running it from the menu, some distros ask for root password before it launch. You also can do it from a terminal window, command line.

Open a terminal window, at the $ prompt type

su -
type in your root password

at the # prompt type
etherape & and press Enter. that should open it up.
 
  


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