ethereal 0.10.14 is now available on www.blastwave.org/testing for sparc and x86. anyone who had problems with the previous version is welcome to test this new pkg. :) Dependencies are: P CSWggettext P CSWglib2 P CSWgtk2 P CSWiconv P CSWlibpcap P CSWpango P CSWpcre P CSWzlib thanks, alessio