aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorUlf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de>2005-11-25 22:27:27 +0000
committerUlf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de>2005-11-25 22:27:27 +0000
commit680cab12264c0f63fe8d4ed550caba6137c982c2 (patch)
treed7d22c77a7a8f715f3437f0793874015b9655729
parent808f2fc11186f10010116e3afdc2a5f6b9da5dee (diff)
add some more help text to the "no packets captured" error dialog:
link to CaptureSetup wiki page Win32 only: wireless: "try switch off promicuous mode" This way we might get less user questions on the users-mailing list ... Especially the second one hopefully could save us from a lot of support mails :-) svn path=/trunk/; revision=16591
-rw-r--r--capture.c34
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/capture.c b/capture.c
index 762ae3838c..2b6ab53779 100644
--- a/capture.c
+++ b/capture.c
@@ -215,8 +215,20 @@ guint32 drops)
/* if we didn't captured even a single packet, close the file again */
if(cf_packet_count(capture_opts->cf) == 0 && !capture_opts->restart) {
simple_dialog(ESD_TYPE_INFO, ESD_BTN_OK,
- "%sNo packets captured!%s\n\n"
- "As no data was captured, closing the %scapture file!",
+"%sNo packets captured!%s\n"
+"\n"
+"As no data was captured, closing the %scapture file!\n"
+"\n"
+"\n"
+"Help about capturing can be found at:\n"
+"\n"
+" http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup"
+#ifdef _WIN32
+"\n\n"
+"Wireless (Wi-Fi/WLAN):\n"
+"Try to switch off promiscuous mode in the Capture Options!"
+#endif
+"",
simple_dialog_primary_start(), simple_dialog_primary_end(),
(cf_is_tempfile(capture_opts->cf)) ? "temporary " : "");
cf_close(capture_opts->cf);
@@ -358,9 +370,21 @@ capture_input_closed(capture_options *capture_opts)
case CF_READ_OK:
if(cf_packet_count(capture_opts->cf) == 0 && !capture_opts->restart) {
- simple_dialog(ESD_TYPE_INFO, ESD_BTN_OK,
- "%sNo packets captured!%s\n\n"
- "As no data was captured, closing the %scapture file!",
+ simple_dialog(ESD_TYPE_INFO, ESD_BTN_OK,
+"%sNo packets captured!%s\n"
+"\n"
+"As no data was captured, closing the %scapture file!\n"
+"\n"
+"\n"
+"Help about capturing can be found at:\n"
+"\n"
+" http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup"
+#ifdef _WIN32
+"\n\n"
+"Wireless (Wi-Fi/WLAN):\n"
+"Try to switch off promiscuous mode in the Capture Options!"
+#endif
+"",
simple_dialog_primary_start(), simple_dialog_primary_end(),
cf_is_tempfile(capture_opts->cf) ? "temporary " : "");
cf_close(capture_opts->cf);