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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark on vista

From: "Joshua (Shiwei) Zhao" <swzhao@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:13:15 -0700
Are we going to fix it? There should be a way to get the device name/description.
If there are multiple WiFi devices (or other network devices showing same problem) on a same machine, currently it's hard to tell which one is which.
 
Thanks,
Joshua

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Microsoft is the wireless adapter.
 
Native wifi adapters on Vista/Win7 have an Intermediate driver (from MS) between their miniport driver and winpcap itself, and such IM driver traps the request that WinPcap uses to get the name, returning just "Microsoft".
 
Have a nice day
GV
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark on vista

Yes, I do have one listed as "Microsoft: \Device\NPF_{7D4C2BA0-BCB3-47D6-8E5C-5D30946E8150}".
What does this tell? Is it the wifi card I have? Then why there is no descriptive name like what we get on xp?
 
Thanks,
Joshua


 
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is the list of adapters returned by Wireshark? Do you have an adapter just called "Microsoft"?
 
GV
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:18 AM
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark on vista

With Wireshark 1.0.4 running on vista, I cannot see my WiFi card as a capture interface though I can see my Ethernet card.
Is this a known issue? Or I might be doing sth wrong?
 
Many thanks,
Joshua


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