Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] wireshark on win7 x64

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:34:13 -0800

Jeff Sawatzky wrote:
> I have installed wireshark 1.2.3 (which comes with winpcap 4.1.1) on a
> windows 7 x64 machine.  Everything seems to be installed correctly, but
> when I launch wireshark I see the loading screen and then it disappears
> and the wireshark process exits.  Anyone know why this is happening, or
> how I can track down the problem further?

Do you have a Marvell Yukon NIC? If so, the problem will be fixed in
1.2.4 which is scheduled to be released next Monday (November 16). In
the meantime you should be able to work around the problem by installing
1.0.10 or a recent development build from
http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/

See https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4155#c33 for
details.