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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Wireless Connection works only with Ethereal

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 12:57:37 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

Looks like a winpcap issue. Try ininstalling that and see what happens.

Thanx,
Jaap


On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Anshuman Aggarwal wrote:

> Hi,
>  My Intel Proset wireless connection only works when
> Ethereal is capturing packets. It gets connected and
> gets an IP address even when Ethereal is not working
> but no other traffic goes through including no DNS
> resolution. But as soon as I start Ethereal it
> works....I am hoping that someone who understands what
> Ethereal does that could be making this works...
>
> My ethernet connection works with and without
> ethereal.
>
> Also this wireless connection has worked before
> without ethereal but I am not sure what caused it to
> stop.
>
> I am a reasonably informed user but this is some
> windows internals corruption that I can't figure out.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Anshuman
>
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