Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Only one interface once installed, have to reboot ?

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:36:56 -0600

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:41:11PM -0400, Ionreflex wrote:

> I've just upgraded to 1.0.0 and something strange occured again - 
> because I've noticed it from an earlier version, but hadn't do 
> anything then! Once installed, I open Wireshark and only one adapter 
> is listed in the "Capture Interfaces" dialog box, the default one 
> called "Adapter for generic dialup and VPN capture" (which is useless 
> in terms of sniffing...). Closing and restarting didn't do anything, 
> but after a reboot my 5 adapters show themselves, everything works 
> like a charm!

I presume you are on Windows.  On Windows, Wireshark gets the list of 
adapters and does capturing with the WinPcap software.  You may want to 
ask their mailing list this question instead:

  http://www.winpcap.org/contact.htm


Steve