The Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX now has libpcap 0.6.2

binaries, so users only need to make sure they have that version
installed in order to have Ethereal (and tcpdump, and snort, and so on)
accept "lanN"-style names (i.e., names of the sort reported by lanscan
and handled by ifconfig), rather than "dlpiN".

Get rid of the patches to update libpcap, get rid of the discussion in
"README.hpux" of patching libpcap and just say "get 0.6.2", and make the
notes on HP-UX kernel patches to fix problems with capturing outgoing
packets a separate item in the list of items in "README.hpux".

Also update the error messages Ethereal and Tethereal display if they
can't open a device and the error is "can't find PPA for XXX" to say
"get 0.6.2" rather than "patch libpcap and recompile.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=3288

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/capture.c b/capture.c
index db7f449d2c..c0a2332261 100644
--- a/capture.c
+++ b/capture.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* capture.c
  * Routines for packet capture windows
  *
- * $Id: capture.c,v 1.146 2001/04/04 23:40:23 guy Exp $
+ * $Id: capture.c,v 1.147 2001/04/11 05:24:08 guy Exp $
  *
  * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
  * By Gerald Combs <gerald@zing.org>
@@ -1325,9 +1325,9 @@ capture(gboolean *stats_known, struct pcap_stat *stats)
 
       /* If we got a "can't find PPA for XXX" message, warn the user (who
          is running Ethereal on HP-UX) that they don't have a version
-	 of libpcap patched to properly handle HP-UX (the patched version
-	 says "can't find /dev/dlpi PPA for XXX" rather than "can't find
-	 PPA for XXX"). */
+	 of libpcap that properly handles HP-UX (libpcap 0.6.x and later
+	 versions, which properly handle HP-UX, say "can't find /dev/dlpi
+	 PPA for XXX" rather than "can't find PPA for XXX"). */
       if (strncmp(err_str, ppamsg, sizeof ppamsg - 1) == 0)
 	libpcap_warn =
 	  "\n\n"
@@ -1335,14 +1335,11 @@ capture(gboolean *stats_known, struct pcap_stat *stats)
 	  "that doesn't handle HP-UX network devices well; this means that\n"
 	  "Ethereal may not be able to capture packets.\n"
 	  "\n"
-	  "To fix this, you will need to download the source to Ethereal\n"
-	  "from www.ethereal.com if you have not already done so, read\n"
-	  "the instructions in the \"README.hpux\" file in the source\n"
-	  "distribution, download the source to libpcap if you have not\n"
-	  "already done so, patch libpcap as per the instructions, rebuild\n"
-	  "and install libpcap, and then build Ethereal (if you have already\n"
-	  "built Ethereal from source, do a \"make distclean\" and re-run\n"
-	  "configure before building).";
+	  "To fix this, you should install libpcap 0.6.2, or a later version\n"
+	  "of libpcap, rather than libpcap 0.4 or 0.5.x.  It is available in\n"
+	  "packaged binary form from the Software Porting And Archive Centre\n"
+	  "for HP-UX; the Centre is at http://hpux.connect.org.uk/ - the page\n"
+	  "at the URL lists a number of mirror sites.";
       else
 	libpcap_warn = "";
       snprintf(errmsg, sizeof errmsg,