diff options
author | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2013-04-17 23:34:31 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2013-04-17 23:34:31 +0000 |
commit | 594aa110aad1f0a94838faf0a112762fe201c282 (patch) | |
tree | c2a6cc81e5a4da19a28acdf91ee6fb83feb66c96 /help | |
parent | 59b8822170b2b25e665c0c076aa467d344cc2cba (diff) | |
download | wireshark-594aa110aad1f0a94838faf0a112762fe201c282.tar.gz wireshark-594aa110aad1f0a94838faf0a112762fe201c282.tar.bz2 wireshark-594aa110aad1f0a94838faf0a112762fe201c282.zip |
Remove some no-longer-relevant content.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=48905
Diffstat (limited to 'help')
-rwxr-xr-x | help/faq.py | 38 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/help/faq.py b/help/faq.py index cb4c7dce99..aa28d5f544 100755 --- a/help/faq.py +++ b/help/faq.py @@ -737,16 +737,6 @@ Similar problems may exist with older versions of GTK+ for earlier versions of Solaris. """) -question("""When I run Wireshark on Windows NT, why does it die with a Dr. -Watson error, reporting an "Integer division by zero" exception, when I -start it?""") - -answer(""" -In at least some case, this appears to be due to using the -default VGA driver; if that's not the correct driver for your video -card, try running the correct driver for your video card. -""") - question("""When I try to run Wireshark, why does it complain about <tt>sprint_realloc_objid</tt> being undefined?""") @@ -1351,12 +1341,11 @@ Also, if at all possible, please send a copy of the capture file that caused the problem. When capturing packets, Wireshark normally writes captured packets to a temporary file, which will probably be in <tt>/tmp</tt> or <tt>/var/tmp</tt> on UNIX-flavored OSes, <tt>\\TEMP</tt> on the main system disk -(normally <tt>C:</tt>) on Windows 9x/Me/NT 4.0, -<tt>\\Documents and Settings\\</tt><var>your login name</var> +(normally <tt>\\Documents and Settings\\</tt><var>your login name</var> <tt>\\Local Settings\\Temp</tt> on the main system disk on Windows -2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003, and +Windows XP and Server 2003, and <tt>\\Users\\<var>your login name</var>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp</tt> on the main -system disk on Windows 7, so the capture file will probably be there. If you +system disk on Windows Vista and later, so the capture file will probably be there. If you are capturing on a single interface, it will have a name of the form, <tt>wireshark_<fmt>_<iface>_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</tt>, where <fmt> is the capture file format (pcap or pcapng), and <iface> is @@ -1383,7 +1372,7 @@ Wireshark give me an error if I try to capture on that interface? """, "capprobwin") answer(""" -If you are running Wireshark on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, +If you are running Wireshark on Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003, and this is the first time you have run a WinPcap-based program (such as Wireshark, or TShark, or WinDump, or Analyzer, or...) since the machine was rebooted, you need to run that @@ -1393,7 +1382,7 @@ such programs until you reboot. <br /> -If you are running on Windows Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server +If you are running on Windows Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and have administrator privileges or a WinPcap-based program has been run with those privileges since the machine rebooted, this problem <em>might</em> clear up if you completely un-install WinPcap and then @@ -1411,23 +1400,6 @@ Therefore, if the OS, the WinPcap library, or the WinPcap driver don't support capturing on a particular network interface device, Wireshark won't be able to capture on that device. -<br /> - -Note that: - -<ol> -<li>2.02 and earlier versions of the WinPcap driver and library that -Wireshark uses for packet capture didn't support Token Ring interfaces; -versions 2.1 and later support Token Ring, and the current version of -Wireshark works with (and, in fact, requires) WinPcap 2.1 or later. - -<br /> - -If you are having problems capturing on Token Ring interfaces, and you -have WinPcap 2.02 or an earlier version of WinPcap installed, you should -uninstall WinPcap, download and install the current version of WinPcap, -and then install the latest version of Wireshark. - <br > <li>WinPcap 2.3 has problems supporting PPP WAN interfaces on Windows NT |