Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Detecting Orinoco Gold Card on Windows XP

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:49:28 -0700
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 09:52:31PM +1200, Jenne Wong wrote:
> I have installed the Etheral smoothly however it can only detects the
> ethenet adapter not the wireless one.

Ethereal doesn't detect cards on Windows, WinPcap does; either WinPcap
isn't detecting that card, or it is but Ethereal isn't properly handling
the information being supplied to it by WinPcap.

In order to determine which of those is the case (which you'll have to
do in order to get the problem resolved, if that's possible), you'll
have to install WinDump:

	http://windump.polito.it/

and run "windump -D" to see what cards it lists.

If it lists the wireless USB interface, it's an Ethereal problem (unless
you have an older version of WinDump partially installed, and Ethereal
happens to be using, for example, a library from that older version,
rather than the library from the newer version).

If it *doesn't* list the wireless USB interface, it's a WinPcap problem;
report it to the WinPcap developers:

	http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm

following all the instructions under "Submitting bugs" (including
downloading the special debugging version of WinDump, running that with
"-D", and sending them the output).