Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] error opening adapter

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:41:44 -0800
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Bryan Jamison wrote:
> When i try to capture on my device (Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 
> Adapter (NC100 v2)), it says "The capture session could not be initiated 
> (Error opening adapter): The system cannot find the file specified). 
> Please check that you have the proper interface specifited"

If this is on Windows 95/98/Me, try Ethereal 0.10.2 - there was a bug
that caused attempts to capture to fail if you selected a device name
from the drop-down list of interfaces.