Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How to diagnose "failure to capture" situation?

["Sake Blok" <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

Many Windows drivers for Wireless cards do not support the "promiscuous" 
mode well. Do you see any packets when you start a capture with promiscuous 
mode off? Of course this means you will only see broadcasts, multicasts and 
unicasts to/from the pc running Wireshark.

Cheers,


Sake

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Markle" <cmarkle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 7:55 PM
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] How to diagnose "failure to capture" situation?


> Hi folks,
>
> I had a customer of ours install Wireshark 0.99.6a and WinPcap to help
> us disgnose a networking issue involving their Windows XP system. No
> matter what form of installing, uninstalling, rebooting, etc. we did,
> we could not get Wireshark to capture on his wireless interface. What
> I am used to seeing is when I open the Capture -> Interfaces window, I
> see packet counts on active interfaces, even if capture is not
> started. I see no packet counts on any of his interfaces even though
> his computer is clearly connected to the internet. Then if I try to
> capture on the wireless interface anyway, I see no packets captured.
>
> What kinds of things can I do to diagnose what's going on here?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chris
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