Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] INTEL PRO WIRELESS NOT CAPTURING

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From: "Kain, Becki (B.)" <bkain1@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:55:58 -0500
I've found that with Cisco 340 and 350 cards as well, but it really is an issue with the driver.  try doing a ping with your wireless, you will probably see, as I do in Win 2k with the Cisco cards, only half of the traffic (the outbound, but not the returns).

-becki kain


-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:41 PM
To: Simon Hildenbrand
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] INTEL PRO WIRELESS NOT CAPTURING



On Dec 12, 2003, at 1:58 PM, Simon Hildenbrand wrote:

> I am trying to use Ethereal, but it is not capturing with my Intel Pro 
> Wireless LAN 2100 Mini PCI adapter card.  If I use a hard wire 
> connection, it will work fine.  However, it does nothing when I select 
> my Intel wireless card.  Is there a solution or known problem for 
> this?

Given that you didn't say what OS this was on, there might be a 
solution or known problem, but we don't know what it is.

If it's Windows, it's probably a problem with the driver for the LAN 
adapter.  Try capturing with WinDump and, if you have the same problem, 
report it to the WinPcap developers - but there's probably not much 
they can do about it; applications such as Ethereal that use WinPcap to 
capture packets are at the mercy of WinPcap, which is, in turn, at the 
mercy of the network interface drivers.