Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Win98SE problems

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:47:14 -0200
    Exactly the same in this part of the world, it starts but after a while
it crashs. I'm using ethereal 0.10.8-SVN-1290 and WinPcap 3.0. I don't know
if I have any other problems but it seens that each click of the mouse take
a long time to be processed (using a K6-II at 500MHz)

Horta

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From: goppit + <goppit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:15 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Win98SE problems


> FAO:Lars Roland
>
> Firstoff thankyou for this excellent software. However I am having
> persistent startup problems with version 10.8.0 of ethereal in Win98.
>
> I have Win98SE installed on my home desktop with a USB ADSL modem. I have
> installed WinPcap_3_1_beta4 followed by ethereal 0.10.8 and intitially I
got
> a fault each time I started ethereal at the "registering dissectors"
stage.
>
> Having read your previous posts I have uninstalled this and installed
> ethereal 0.10.8-SVN-13003. This allows ethereal to start however now the
> system hangs and reboots when I bring up the interface dialogbox or the
> capture screen and try to select the ADSL modem as the interface.
>
> There are only 3 interfaces listed:
> PPP Adapter.: PPPMAC
> Microsoft Tv/Video connection: NdisIP
> USB ADSL Driver: GWAUSB98
>
> Running "windump-D" from command prompt also lists these adapters and is
an
> indication that WinPcap is detecting the hardware correctly.
>
> On my XPSP2 laptop, ethereal runs like clockwork with the broadband modem
> and I note there are different options listed in the interfaces box.
> "Generic NdisWan adapter" seems to work perfectly satisfactorily by
default.
>
> Regards,
>
> Goppit.
>
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