Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.9.0 on IBM TR PCMCIA card sniffs correctly but won

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:57:43 -0600
On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 09:45:52 Wouter Liefting wrote:
> Never had a problem sniffing on ethernet networks before, but now I need
> to
> do some sniffing on token ring. Here's my setup:
> 
> IBM ThinkPad 770X with IBM Turbo 16/4 Token-Ring PC Card
> Red Hat Linux 7.1 with upgraded libpcap RPM from RH7.2
> Ethereal 0.8.18 and 0.9.0 installed from source (tried it with both, both
> fail)
> 
> When I start the network trace, ethereal (libpcap?) barfs the following
> to
> stdout:
> 
> WARNING: unsupported device type 0x320, assuming raw
> WARNING: unsupported device type 0x320, assuming raw
> Kernel filter, protocol ALL, TURBO mode (63 frames), raw packet socket
 

What version of libpcap do you have installed. How about tcpdump?
Have you tried sniffing with tcpdump? Does it produce the same
error message?

--gilbert