Wow, U3 too? Portable version has the same problem and I mentioned it a
few days ago. The question was this by design for a reason (legal
issues?) or a bug?
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 04:53:04PM -0400, Matthew Morgan wrote:
> Hi, I'd been using the U3 version of wireshark a (long) while ago, and
> it stopped automatically installing winpcap. I hadn't used it for a
> while, but I find myself in need of it again, so I removed it and
> installed the latest version (1.2.10) from the website.
>
> As before, it asks me if I want to install winpcap, but nothing actually
> pops up. When I click yes, it immediately continues loading wireshark,
> which of course doesn't work. Does anyone have an idea how I can get
> that working again? It's so much nicer for it to automatically install
> and remove winpcap than for me to have to do it manually.
>
> Here are my U3 specs as displayed by my "about U3" dialog.
>
> U3 Launchpad Version: 1, 4, 0, 2
> Device Version 3.27
> ADAPI Version 4.5.2.0 Unicode