Hi,

Never tried it myself, but this caught my eye on the Wiki page:
"The latest libpcap CVS (not an 0.9.x release or earlier release) is 
required for capturing raw USB traffic."

Thanx,
Jaap

Joshua Pollack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in using Wireshark to capture raw USB traffic, but I
> can't seem to get this feature to work.  Has anyone on this list ever
> managed to do this before?
> 
> The page on the wiki
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB
> 
> says that to use this, you must load the usbmon kernel module, which
> lets you get access to the data via debugfs, and also mount debugfs at
> /sys/kernel/debug.  It says that once these steps have been taken,
> that devices looking like 'usbX' should show up in Wireshark's
> "Capture Interfaces" dialog.
> 
> I've tried these steps and have no such device showing.
> 
> I've confirmed that usbmon is doing what I thought it to be doing,
> when I cat /sys/kernel/debug/usbmom/1u, I get the traffic off that
> bus.
> 
> My question is, has anyone else used this feature before?  How did you
> enable it?  I tried with both the Wireshark provided by debian and one
> I built from source (both 0.99.6).  I've tried this on kernel 2.6.18
> as well as 2.6.22 (since the \du interface appeared with 2.6.21) Both
> of them I tried with libpcap (0.9.7).  Is there some debug output I
> could be reading which might indicate why I can't capture from USB?
> 
> If anyone has gotten this to work before I'd be interested in the
> configuration details so i can try to reproduce it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joshua
> 

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