Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] (no subject)

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

alexus wrote:

> I'm using Ethereal 0.10.10, and I'm using Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B
> Mini PCI Adapter, and it doesn't seem to be capturing anything with my
> adapter, I'm trying to capture wireless traffic. Is your software supports
> that? Or do I need to install anything extra for that? I also installed
> WinPcap 3.1 Beta 4.

For capturing, our software supports what libpcap/WinPcap, the 
underlying OS mechanisms they use, and the network adapter drivers 
support; there's no low-level capturing code in Ethereal, there's just 
code that makes libpcap/WinPcap calls to do capturing.

Windows is not a very friendly platform for capturing on 802.11 adapters 
using the standard drivers for the adapters:

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq#q5.39

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq#q5.40

so there are limits on what Ethereal can support.