Wireshark needs to be run as root in order to be able to read the
packets; this is simply not possible when run as a user without these
privileges. This behaviour is known and intentional, which is why the
option to run as root is there. Closing for this reason. Thanks for your
report.
** Changed
I'm having the same problem, but running as root with sudo locks up my
laptop completely. I'm using a Dell D520 with iwl3945 running Hardy
8.04.1.
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wireshark cannot find network interfaces when not running as root
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/287099
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