I'm using the IBM PCI Wakelan token-ring card with the Olympic driver
on Linux. The promiscuous mode works, without me having to do anything
special. I think the IBM PCI TR (not WakeLan) does not support the
promiscuous mode. Also, have you checked that you are on a hub, not a
switch ?
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Christophe Tronche USweb/CKS France
> Hi,
> Has anyone has success using Ethereal with the IBM PCI Token Ring
> adapter? I don't think that this is a Ethereal problem, but more a
> problem with the driver for this adapter. The "olympic" driver seems to
> support promiscuous mode, but all I seem to capture are broadcast,
> multicast, and frames directed to the machine running Ethereal. I've
> tweaked the olympic code based on Lanstreamer technical interface
> document I've got, but so far no luck. The document describes a
> password to use to turn on the promiscuous mode, but when I've added
> these modifications it still doesn't work.
> Thanks for any help with this,
> Tom
