Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 2
24 Sniffer Portable Professional
Wireless Adapters in Windows Vista
You must install the latest native Atheros driver to use Sniffer
Portable Professional on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
with a wireless card.
The native Atheros driver is included with Sniffer Portable
Professional under \Sniffer
Portable\driver\en\atheros\vista. Select netathr.inf if
installing on a 32-bit machine or netathrx.inf if installing on a 64-bit
machine. For Cisco cards, use the driver in the \Sniffer Portable\driver\en\cisco\vista folder.
See Native Atheros Driver Update Procedure on page 26 for
information on how to install the native Atheros driver.
Combo Cards and Supported 802.11 Versions
Sniffer Portable Professional supports 802.11 combo cards using
the chipsets listed in the table above differently depending on your
operating system:
Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 – 802.11 a/b/g
combo cards only. Other combinations (including cards that
support only 802.11 b/g) are not supported.
Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 – Any
combination of 802.11 a/b/g/n.
Sniffer Portable Professional can monitor, capture, and display
statistics for wireless cards supporting the Japanese W52 and W53
standards.
Sniffer Enhanced Driver Installation Procedure
Sniffer enhanced drivers for wireless LAN cards are located in intuitively
named subdirectories under the following default path:
\NetScout\Sniffer Portable\driver\en\
To install a Sniffer enhanced driver:
1 Make sure the Sniffer Portable Professional software is installed. If
it is not installed, install it now.
2 Log in to Windows as an Administrator.
3 Insert the card in an available card slot on the target machine.
Windows automatically detects the new card and installs its native
device driver.