[Winpcap-users] capture session could not be initiated

Loris Degioanni loris.degioanni at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 15:57:13 GMT 2005


First of all, do ethereal from ethereal.com and the other regular 
WinPcap applications work? For example, what is the output of "windump 
-D"? (you find windump at http://www.winpcap.org/windump/.

Loris


david sharp wrote:
>  
> Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help me out , I have built ethereal on 
> Cygwin for windows xp . I have installed the latest version of winpcap 3.1
>  
> When I try to start a capture firstly it does not return any interfaces 
> , then when I enter an interface it returns an error :
>  
> The capture session could not be initiated (Error opening adapter:The 
> system cannot find the file specified.
>  
> is this a bug in the winpcap package I have tried installing winpcap 2.3 
> but I can't manage to build it.  
>  
> I appreciate any response
>  
> David Sharp
> 
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