[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

men212 wrote:

>       When I want to start capturing, Ethereal pops-up such message: 
> "Can't get list of interfaces: PacketGetAdapterNames: The operation 
> completed successfully."
> And the edit field in capture form is empty. I tried to enter network 
> adapter's name manualy , but it changed nothing.
>       On Win98se everything worked fine. Now I am using WinXP.
>  
> OS: Windows XP Professional version 2002
> Network adapter: Realtek RTL8139/810X Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
> Ethereal version 0.10.1(c)
>  
> How could I solve this problem ?
>  

Did you update to WinpCap 3.0, as previous versions of it didn't work 
with XP.

Have a look at the FAQ, which notes some things about this and other 
possible causes too.

Regards, ULFL