Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] W2K Laptop

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From: Steve Hill <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:14:40 -0700
nugrange 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.

I thought, at first, that it was because the OS came up without
registering the PCMCIA network adaptor, so I stopped and then
restarted the card.  However, I find that it is working right from the
boot-up.

Does anyone have a troubleshooting scenario that I can use to
diagnose, and then fix, this problem?

After a number of attempts, I have been successful in getting WinPcap to recognize my PCMCIA NIC.

I believe that the problem was that when I was installing the various versions, having removed the previous ones (I believed) via Software Add/Remove, I was queried is I wanted to replace DLLs with older ones. I had been answering no. Somehow M$ seemed to have forgotten that packets.dll, etc, were part of WinPcap, so they didn't remove, or even OFFER to remove, several DLLs. Once I answered "Yes" to the overwrite query, everything became copasetic.

Gimme unix, everytime!

Steve