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Ethereal not working

When I used my SMC2532W-B PC Card adapter on my last laptop, I used Ethereal to capture packets. When I use the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG adapter built in to my current laptop, Ethereal captures no packets , not even my own, unless I tell it NOT to capture packets in promiscuous mode. When I tell it not to use promiscuous mode, I capture only my own.

OS: XP Home in both cases.

Why am I not capturing packets?

TIA

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Dave Rudisill
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Thanks.

Reply to
Dave Rudisill

Inability of the Windows drivers to enable monitoring mode. As you have rightly determined, the resolution is to not enable promiscuous mode but then you only capture traffic related to your machine.

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David Taylor

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