Try turning promiscuous mode off.  Newer Intel chipset drivers do not 
capture anything with promiscuous mode on, but do work with it off.

At 08:04 AM 11/20/2007, Gianluca Varenni wrote:
>It's entirely possible that the newer drivers from Linksys do not support
>promiscuous mode any more (promiscuous mode is a feature of the miniport
>driver for the network card, it's not an OS feature).
>
>Does it fail to go into promiscuous mode or you simply don't capture any
>packet?
>
>GV
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Bayly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <wireshark-users@wireshark.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:28 AM
>Subject: [Wireshark-users] Linksys WPC 54g promiscuous capture on XP-sp2
>
>
> > I'd been using Ethereal on my laptop using XP Pro-sp2
> > and a Linksys WPC54g v.1 (and a v.1.2 card) for quite
> > some time. I never had any issues about capturing in
> > promiscuous mode.
> > I hadn't used for a while, and then found the
> > Wireshark had superseded Ethereal, so I downloaded
> > WinPCAP 4.02 and Wireshark.
> > However, I now cannot capture in promiscuous mode.
> >
> > I'm using XP Pro-sp2 and I've tried every combination
> > using the following:
> > WPC54g v.1
> > WPC54g v.1.2
> > Card driver v.3.3
> > Card driver v.3.6
> > Card driver v.4.1
> > WinPCAP v.3.1
> > WinPCAP v.4.0.2
> >
> > I've also tried using tshark.exe and windump.exe to
> > capture, to no avail.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this,
> > especially as I used to have no problems.
> >
> > I'm wondering if MS have broken promiscuous capture as
> > the configuration that used to work on another Laptop
> > in our office appears to have stopped working too.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > John

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