Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] As requested

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 19, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Niklas Bergh wrote:

> I was greeted with this message after resuming my computer from  
> hibernation:
>
>
>
> ******************
>
> Error while capturing packets: read error: PacketReceivePacket failed
>
> Please report this to the Wireshark developers.  (This is not a crash;
>
> please do not report it as such.)
>
> ******************
>
>
>
> Right before I hibernated the computer I was capturing traffic going  
> through
> my Option 3G PC-card. The last thing I did before actually  
> hibernating the
> computer was to disconnect the 3G card connection. Not sure if the  
> message
> appeared at that point or when the computer woke up again.

Disconnecting the 3G card connection probably caused the problem.   
Similar things have been reported on Linux.

Report this to the WinPcap developers; ask them if that's an expected  
error in that case.