Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.9.4 sources and Windows

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:59:06 -0500 (CDT)
On Wed, 22 May 2002 andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> >   Under Windows, a descriptive interface name is now listed in the 
> packet
> >   capture dialog.
>  
> This feature has a bug, at least on the machine a cow-orker of mine 
> tried today. 
> 
> If you set the interface in the capture preferences dialog before 
> starting any capture to "Realtek 8139-series PCI NIC", you will 
> see the name of the card in the Start capture window until the 
> first space character, "Realtek". Starting a capture will fail, 
> because the name is incorrect. 

I've checked in a change to fix this.  The default behavior previously
when saving the capture device preference was to lop off everything but
the first whitespace-separated word.  Ethereal now saves the whole string.


> 
> Network card name: Realtek 8139-series PCI NIC
> Interface name in Start capture window: Realtek
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Sikkema
> andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx
> "While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. 
>  It's a Spanish story about a guy named `Manual'" - Dilbert
>