Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] When I go into Preferences I get bomb out

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:51:36 -0700
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:42:42PM +0100, Paul Spearman wrote:
> I am running windows 2k Pro SP2 and when I try and go into Preference I get
> the a DOS screen with this error message
> 
> file capture-wpcap.c: line 112: assertion failed: (has_wpcap)  
> 
> and then two windows message boxes saying there has been a error and closes
> the application, can you help

There's a bug, for which I just checked in a fix.

The only workaround is to install WinPcap on your machine.