Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] [jerlich@xxxxxxxxxxx: Re: [ethereal-users] trouble with win98

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From: Bert Driehuis <driehuis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 02:53:40 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:

> I see in the screen shot you sent me [I was amazed that AbiWord read your
> MS Word file just fine, even with the embedded graphic] that you also
> have a 3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA card.  Coincidentally (perhaps not),
> there was a Linux user with problems using a 3COM Megahertz PCMCIA
> ethernet card; it appeared not to go into promiscuous mode until he
> updated the linux drivers for it. It makes me wonder why WinDump won't
> even use your Ethernet card for capturing.

If there is one PCMCIA card that stands a fighting chance of working in
any OS, it's the 3C589[BCD] card, which identifies itself as an
EtherLink III card. The Megahertz is an entirely different design which
happens to bear a 3Com logo.

Just a datapoint...

Cheers,

					-- Bert

Bert Driehuis -- driehuis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- +31-20-3116119
If the only tool you've got is an axe, every problem looks like fun!