Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture with cisco aironet lan adaptor

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 12:33:01 -0700

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 9:00 AM, Sam Becker wrote:

Why can i capture with a wired lan adaptor but not a wireless adaptor?

Because the writers of drivers for wireless adapters don't always make those adapters friendly towards packet capture, especially on Windows. You'd have to ask the driver writers why that's the case; I don't know the answer.