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[. . . ] USB 2. 0 Wireless Capture Adapter Installation Guide Copyrights Copyright © 2006 CACE Technologies, LLC All rights reserved. This document may not, in whole or part, be: copied; photocopied; reproduced; translated; reduced; or transferred to any electronic medium or machine-readable form without prior consent in writing from CACE Technologies, LLC. AirPcap USB 2. 0 Wireless Capture Adapter Installation Guide Document Version: Document Revision: 2. 0 January 8, 2006 CACE Technologies, LLC Davis, CA 95616 (530) 758-2790 (530) 758-2781 (fax) support@cacetech. com http://www. cacetech. com 2 Contents and Figures Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What is in the Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What is on the CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driver Installation (Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista). . . . 5 Wireshark Network Analyzer Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Additional Tools Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Developers Resources Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figures Figure 1: The CD Setup Page ­ Driver Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] If you have a previous version of the AirPcap Software Distribution already installed in your system, uninstall it by clicking on: Control Panel >> Add or Remove Programs >> AirPcap Software Insert the AirPcap Software Distribution CD into your CD drive. If it does not, please select your CD-Rom Drive manually to open the setup page. 3. 6. Click on "Install Driver" to initiate the installation. The installer tries to detect if WinPcap is already installed in the machine, and if the installed WinPcap version supports 5 AirPcap wireless capture. Upon completing the software installation, reboot the system if requested. Important: Now plug your adapter into one of the machine's USB ports. Depending on the operating system version, when you plug the adapter into a USB port for the first time, Windows may show the "Found New Hardware Wizard" (Figure 2). Figure 2: Found New Hardware Wizard Any time this happens, answer these questions (if they appear) in the following way: Can Windows connect to Windows Update to search for software? Select "No, not this time" What do you want the wizard to do? Select "Install the software automatically" 6 Wireshark Network Analyzer Installation Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal®, is the world's most used network analyzer. It is used by network professionals for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. Once you have installed Wireshark you can immediately start capturing and analyzing 802. 11 traffic. If you have a previous version of Wireshark already installed in your system, uninstall it by clicking on: Control Panel >> Add or Remove Programs >> Wireshark Figure 3: The CD Setup Page ­ Wireshark Installation 2. If it does not, please select your CD-Rom Drive manually to open the setup page. [. . . ] The AirPcap adapters are 100% compatible with WinPcap, and this makes it straightforward to add 802. 11 support to your existing WinPcap-based application. If you are interested in adding support for the AirPcap adapters in your program, you can contact CACE Technologies for support; write to: support@cacetech. com Contact Us CACE Technologies Davis, CA 95616 USA Tel: 530. 758. 2790 Fax: 530. 758. 2781 Web: www. cacetech. com 8 [. . . ]