Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Mapping Interface in Ethereal to physical interface...

[Jack Jackson <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:34 pm 08/28/2002, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Windows, with recent versions of Ethereal, the list in the combo box
> should give a human-readable description of the interface; again, that
> should help if the interfaces are different types of cards.

There is a slight bug with this in Ethereal 0.9.5, at least on Win2000.

The first time the Capture dialog box is opened after starting Ethereal it 
does show the human-readable form.  The second and subsequent times it 
shows the '\Device\Packet...' form.  The drop-down list always shows the 
human readable form.