Winpcap, and therefore analyzer and ethereal, work on windows ME, but not on
your system, probably because of a bug in the packet driver. Can you tell me
what happens installing windump and typing 'windump -D'?
Loris.
> Hi Everyone!
>
> I have a Windows ME OS PC, and have been trying to get either Ethereal
> or Analyzer packet sniffer working on my PC, *without* luck.
>
> I can install and *open* either program successfully. But, when I try
> to *do* anything with either program, they *both* immediately crash with
> the (approximate) following message in the 'Blue Screen of Death' mode:
>
> "Exception 0E in VxD PPPMAC(01) ...
> This was called (from) ... VxD NDIS(01) ... "
>
> I get this *exact* same crash message on *both* Analyzer and Ethereal.
>
> So, I looked in the HELP documentation of the *beta* Analyzer 2.1, and
> it states there that Win ME OS is NOT SUPPORTED.
>
> And I suspect this is *also* true for the Ethereal software too, that
> Win ME does *not* work properly for it. The Ethereal FAQ states that
> "Windows ME should work." But I suspect that this is *not* the case.
>
> Anyway, if you know of *anyone* that has gotten Ethereal to work with
> the Windows ME OS, please let me know. I'd be interested in asking them
> what they did to accomplish that.
>
> In the meantime, my *advise* to you is to state in any messages where
> you recommend Ethereal or Analyzer packet sniffers that:
>
> (1) Analyzer 2.1 *beta* does *not* work with Win ME OS, and says so.
>
> (2) It is *unclear* that Ethereal works with Windows ME OS.
>
> I got the CommView and SpyNet sniffers to work *briefly* for me with Win
> ME OS. But of course they are now time expired. So, anyway, I'd like
> to get the Ethereal packet sniffer working with my Win ME OS if
> possible. But I am thinking here that this will require work from the
> authors of Ethereal and/or WinPcap, to make that happen.
>
> I think the statistics are that like 35% of PC users run Windows 98,
> whereas like 2% of less run Windows ME OS. So I'm not sure that Windows
> ME working with Ethereal is all that much of a priority. Still, if I
> don't ask for that, surely it will not happen. ;-)
>
> I just thought that you might benefit from the information in this
> email.
>
> Catch you later, Scott
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