Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] what is the reason of lack of hadrware support

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From: Puneet Goel <puneetgoel77@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 05:44:29 +0100 (BST)
hi all,
 
i have been looking for buying a WLAN setup. one of the possible use of mine is using ethereal or some other protocol analyzer under Windows as well as occasinally Linux too. so thought of some possible hardware but saw only some of the hardware are supported in Windows and very few in Linux.
 
any idea why it is so, as per my understanding of any windows based protocol analyzer "the packet capture part is a protocol driver which sits above hardware specific miniport driver and while writing protocol driver (in case of ethereal winpcap) we deal with only NDIS" so where comes the issue of hardware support.
 
can anybody enlighten me about this doubt under both windows and linux case.
 
 
regards

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