Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Windows XP 64 Bit - Report

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:

> Maybe someone who knows windows and the gui could add detection for
> 64-bit windows and pop up a BIG notice regarding this problem?

The GUI part shouldn't be hard - if the list of adapters is empty, and 
you're on a 64-bit Windows platform, pop up the dialog.

The hard part is finding out if you're on a 64-bit platform; some 
Googling indicates that GetNativeSystemInfo() will tell you the type of 
hardware on which you're running - and not lie to you if you're a 32-bit 
app on a 64-bit platform - but it first appeared in NT 5.1, so if you're 
running 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/W2K, it's not available, and you'll have to load 
kernel32.dll with LoadLibrary() and look for "GetNativeSystemInfo()" 
with GetSymbolAddress() or whatever it's called, and call it only if you 
find it, and otherwise assume you're on 32-bit Windows.