Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Error opening adapter

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:03:31 -0500
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 09:42:32AM -0500, Quick, Edward T wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed Ethereal for Windows NT, but when I try to start the 
> Capture I get the following error msg:
> 
> Ethereal: Warning
> 
> The capture session could not be initiated (Error opening adapter).
> Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and that
> you have the proper interface specified.
> 
> As far as permissions go, I have administrator permission so that can't be 
> the problem. The only other thing I can see is the
> interface setting in Capture Preferences which seems to get set to this by 
> default:
> 
> Interface: \Device\Packet_IbmTok41
> 
> Could you tell me how I can round this please?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Edward.

First, I'm assuming that you installed the packet capture driver
as specified in README.win32.  If so, does WinDump (available from
the same website as the packet capture driver) work for you?

You might be the first person testing Ethereal for Win32 with token-ring.

--gilbert