Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] ThinkPad T40 and Promiscuous mode

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From: "Pierre Goyette" <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:02:07 -0400
I have an IBM ThinkPad T40 (2373-92U) with the latest Wifi drivers (IBM Dual-Band and IBM 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter Software for Windows) version 3.1.1.5401.
 
I checked with IBM and they say that these drivers *do* support promiscuous mode.
 
However, whenever I use Ethereal 0.10.4 on my Wifi adapter, it does not capture any packets if the "Capture packets in promiscuous mode" is enabled. If I disable it, then I can capture my own packets. I tried WinPCap 3.0 and 3.1B3.
 
I check through the various docs and cannot find anything which might indicated why this happens.
 
Tia,
 
Pierre Goyette