hi, I have been trying recently to use ethereal 0.10.0 on my 2.4.23 linux box with a madwifi driver (which suposedly supports the prism header data-reporting thing). I have tried to get ethereal to dump and display the prism header of each packet but failed to do so.
As far as I can tell by asking a few BSD users and reading the ethereal and libpcap code, it looks like I should be able to select the link-layer type from the UI when starting a capture in the drop-down menu below the interface selection. However, this drop-down menu is always greyed out which indicates (by reading the code for this dialog in ethereal) that the network interfaces I am trying to dump from support only one type of link-layer dump. Further code reading in libpcap seems to show that the pcap-linux.c file is the culprit: it sets dlt_count to zero which implies no link-layer change capability. So, I wonder if Linux users can actually use this feature. If so, maybe someone could suggest what I screwed up ? Mathieu -- Mathieu Lacage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Ethereal-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users
