Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] PACKET.DLL:PacketSetReadTimeout Problem

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From: "Fulvio Risso" <risso@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:50:53 +0100
Hi.
We got an interruption for the power supply this weekend.
Please try downloading WinPcap now.
Cheers,

	fulvio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Antti Eronen
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 12:35
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] PACKET.DLL:PacketSetReadTimeout Problem
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a problem - and I'm hopefully alone. Anyway, I installed
> Ethereal
> on a Win95 machine, but when trying to start it, I get an error message
> telling me Ethereal is trying to link to a PacketSetReadTimeout export
> function in packet.dll, but it can't find the function (or alike (it's a
> Finnish version of Win95, so translation might lose some significant ).
> First when I got this error I had WinPcap v. 2.01 installed. Then I
> installed v. 2.02 (yes, booted a million times), but with no
> progress. Some
> other sniffers I installed too, all using WinPcap, seem to give the same
> error and not to start.
>   I had an older version of WinDump that worked, but now that I installed
> the newest one, it gives the same error.
>   I read from the WinPcap installation instructions, that installing the
> capture driver from the files from Packet95.exe should install a protocol
> called "BPF Packet capture Driver for Win95/98 v X.XX." Well, I
> only get a
> "Network Packet Driver for Win95/98 v 2.02." So this really isn't
> the same
> thing, is it?
>   I downloaded the Packet95.exe from the datanerds.net/~mike mirror of
> netgroup-serv.polito.it for I couldn't get to netgroup-serv.polito.it.
>   After realizing I've started all the paragaphs with "I", I'd better end
> this complaint.
>   Help would be greatly apriciated, so if you have a solution,
> put it on the
> list or, even better, email me.
>
>   Antti
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