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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] u3 not installing winpcap

From: Phillip Pi <ant@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:23:12 -0700
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