Short story: the wireless adapter is probably one of the two "Microsoft"
ones.
Long story: starting from Vista, wireless drivers can be old style (NDIS
5.x) working exactly like in Windows 2000/XP, or native Wifi drivers
(NDIS6). In this case the driver is lightweight and delivers 802.11 frames
to an intermediate driver (developed by MS) that converts 802.11 frames into
cooked 802.3 frames that can be managed by the upper protocols like the
TCP/IP stack. This intermediate driver is also responsible for managing
association/disassociation, BSSID scans and such. And this intermediate
driver is also responsible for filtering the requests coming from the upper
protocols (like WinPcap) for the underlying device description, and always
returning "Microsoft" instead of e.g. "Intel Wireless 4965 Adapter".
I haven't looked if there is a possible workaround to the problem, yet.
Have a nice day
GV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Infoskop" <infoskop@xxxxxx>
To: <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 3:11 PM
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Problem with Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN card
My card: Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
System: Windows Vista Home Premium
windump -D
1.\Device\NPF_{CE2BA077-B0FB-4C10-9507-7DA7230F9F4F} (MS Tunnel
Interface Driver)
2.\Device\NPF_{DC27B183-BF8D-4CE2-8C72-CAEDCC0CD4D8} (Realtek
RTL8168B/8111B PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC)
3.\Device\NPF_{32CDA324-E1DF-4A9C-931F-3B3FF60FBDC8} (Microsoft)
4.\Device\NPF_{647885D2-8189-489E-9C84-C112F482C99A} (Microsoft)
My network devices:
Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
Bluetooth Device (Protocol TDI RFCOMM)
Urządzenie Bluetooth (personal network)
Wireshark can't see my Wifi Card so I can't use it with Wireshark.
I don't know why windump calls my wifi card as MS tunnel Interface Driver.
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