["Julian Fielding" <jfielding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Simpson on Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:59:37 -0400 said:
> I downloaded and installed WinPcap_2_3 followed by ethereal-setup-0.9.16 on my Win 98 machine.
> If I clicked on File/Open I got Windows illegal operation and it closed Ethereal, if I clicked on
> Capture/Start it rebooted my system. I then uninstalled both and installed WinPcap_3_0 and
> Ethereal-setup-0.10.5a. Same problem. One thing I think may not be as it should be is the
> ProgramFiles/WinPcap folder which has only two files-"Install.log" and "Uninstall.exe"
> Please help me with my problem.

Jim,

I waited a few days before responding because I can't help you much. Maybe someone else can help, or at least confirm that 0.10.5a or other recent versions work on Win98.

Your problem is probably not WinPcap, for two reasons:

1. It's not involved with File/Open.
2. I've got WinPcap 3.0 installed on a Win95 machine. It has the same two files in Program Files\WinPcap. Look at the [CopyFiles] section at the end of Install.log to see where the other files went. My WinPcap works (with WinDump, not Ethereal - Ethereal gets a missing WS2-32.dll error on Win95).

You could use WinDump to confirm that WinPcap is OK, or just don't install WinPcap. Ethereal should run without it. You wouldn't be able to capture, but you could do File/Open to test the problem.

Julian.