[Steve Hill <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 11:23 AM, Steve Hill wrote:
>
> > I have just upgraded my laptop to Win2000 (my first exposure to this
> > OS) and when I try to start a ethereal capture, I see no network
> > adaptors in the pull-down menu.
>
>
>     http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.16 

DUH!  Sorry, I didn't think that it would have been in there.

> ... it's almost certainly a WinPcap problem rather than an  Ethereal 
> problem, and WinPcap problems might be problems with the underlying 
> network adapter driver and/or NDIS, and neither we nor the Winpcap 
> developers have source to those drivers or to Windows 2000.
>
> The WinPcap developers are probably more likely to know why a WinPcap 
> problem such as that would occur, which is why, if it's a WinPcap 
> problem (i.e., if WinDump can't handle the interface, either), that 
> FAQ suggests contacting them. 

Thanks for the pointers.  Now I will look for WinDump, and how to run 
WinPcap from the command line.  When the FAQ said "run WinPcap" I 
thought they meant run WinPcap.exe, which I had done, without success.

Thanks,
 Steve