Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Linksys WPC 54g promiscuous capture on XP-sp2
Try turning promiscuous mode off. Newer Intel chipset drivers do not
capture anything with promiscuous mode on, but do work with it off.
At 08:04 AM 11/20/2007, Gianluca Varenni wrote:
It's entirely possible that the newer drivers from Linksys do not support
promiscuous mode any more (promiscuous mode is a feature of the miniport
driver for the network card, it's not an OS feature).
Does it fail to go into promiscuous mode or you simply don't capture any
packet?
GV
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Bayly" <oobayly@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:28 AM
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Linksys WPC 54g promiscuous capture on XP-sp2
> I'd been using Ethereal on my laptop using XP Pro-sp2
> and a Linksys WPC54g v.1 (and a v.1.2 card) for quite
> some time. I never had any issues about capturing in
> promiscuous mode.
> I hadn't used for a while, and then found the
> Wireshark had superseded Ethereal, so I downloaded
> WinPCAP 4.02 and Wireshark.
> However, I now cannot capture in promiscuous mode.
>
> I'm using XP Pro-sp2 and I've tried every combination
> using the following:
> WPC54g v.1
> WPC54g v.1.2
> Card driver v.3.3
> Card driver v.3.6
> Card driver v.4.1
> WinPCAP v.3.1
> WinPCAP v.4.0.2
>
> I've also tried using tshark.exe and windump.exe to
> capture, to no avail.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this,
> especially as I used to have no problems.
>
> I'm wondering if MS have broken promiscuous capture as
> the configuration that used to work on another Laptop
> in our office appears to have stopped working too.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John
