Re: npcap 0.99R1 installer won't install on Win 7 32-bit

Daniel Miller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nmap.devel
Message-ID <CABmvJnNVdXR4zdzjmEhya_G3FxyC8fg-LSp2iC6uuR2LSSnZFg@mail.gmail.com>
Michael,

Thanks so much again for reporting this. I confirmed that we mistakenly
took out the portion of the installer that stores the result of the 64-bit
check, so all checks were assuming 64-bit. We'll test properly on 32-bit
Windows and get a fix into the next release this week.

Dan

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:33 PM, Michael D. Lawler <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The install.log clearly shows that it's trying to install the x64 and not
> the x86 driver on a 32-bit system.
>
> detailprint: Installing NDIS6.x x64 driver for Win7, Win8 and Win10
>
> from line 86 of the install.log that I sent Dan.
>
> At 05:29 PM 3/11/2018, Daniel Miller wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> I've reviewed our installer code and I can't see specifically why the
> Npcap installer wouldn't work correctly on 32-bit systems. However, we did
> make some recent changes to 32/64-bit registry locations, so it's
> understandable that a bug may have slipped in.
>
> Can you please send us your install.log and NPFInstall.log from the Npcap
> installation directory (Program Files\Npcap)? This will help us diagnose
> better. Thanks!
>
> Dan
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 3:08 AM, Michael D. Lawler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> The installer fails to install the driver.  I believe that it is trying
> to use the 64-bit version of npfinstall.exe on 32-bit systems.
>
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