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authorUlf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de>2005-11-25 22:38:02 +0000
committerUlf Lamping <ulf.lamping@web.de>2005-11-25 22:38:02 +0000
commit03b4388fe08a3155249f654b058f44e4da698e43 (patch)
treeca1da35091947bc8979ce4583e97b6bdbeebcdba /capture_loop.c
parent680cab12264c0f63fe8d4ed550caba6137c982c2 (diff)
rephrase the error dialog if an interface couldn't be opened.
made the CaptureSetup wiki page more prominent added some "headings" so some of the help subtopics are easier for "human grep" IMHO svn path=/trunk/; revision=16592
Diffstat (limited to 'capture_loop.c')
-rw-r--r--capture_loop.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/capture_loop.c b/capture_loop.c
index 3d8d047588..6a02e677aa 100644
--- a/capture_loop.c
+++ b/capture_loop.c
@@ -623,23 +623,25 @@ static int capture_loop_open_input(capture_options *capture_opts, loop_data *ld,
"\n"
"Please check that you have the proper interface specified.\n"
"\n"
-"Help can be found at: http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup\n"
"\n"
-"WinPcap does not support 64-bit Windows, so you will not be able to capture\n"
-"traffic with Tethereal on 64-bit Windows. You will have to use some other\n"
-"tool to capture traffic, such as netcap; see\n"
+"Help can be found at:\n"
"\n"
-" http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310875\n"
+" %shttp://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup%s\n"
"\n"
-"for information about netcap.\n"
+"64-bit Windows:\n"
+"WinPcap does not support 64-bit Windows, you will have to use some other\n"
+"tool to capture traffic, such as netcap.\n"
+"For netcap details see: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310875\n"
"\n"
+"Modem (PPP/WAN):\n"
"Note that version 3.0 of WinPcap, and earlier versions of WinPcap, don't\n"
"support capturing on PPP/WAN interfaces on Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP /\n"
"Server 2003.\n"
"WinPcap 3.1 has support for it on Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003, but has no\n"
"support for it on Windows NT 4.0 or Windows Vista (Beta 1).",
simple_dialog_primary_start(), simple_dialog_primary_end(),
- open_err_str);
+ open_err_str,
+ simple_dialog_primary_start(), simple_dialog_primary_end());
return FALSE;
#else
/* try to open iface as a pipe */