Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Using Ethereal on an IBM Thinkpad with Ethernet and TRN car

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 00:38:18 -0700
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 09:20:34AM +0200, DORLINGB@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Later I had to reinstall and the token ring card was installed at that
> time.
> Well WINPCAP bound itself to the TRN card too and all seemed to be OK.  A
> few days later when
> I restarted the Thinkpad it hung on boot. Turns out that the problem was
> that WINPCAP
> was bound to the TRN card, when I removed it all was OK again.

WinPcap doesn't support token ring currently.

Fulvio, could the fact that the current packet drivers (on both NT and
9x) don't specify NdisMedium802_5 in the list passed to
"NdisOpenAdapter()" cause this?