Re: [ros-dev] NDIS NdisIMRegisterLayeredMiniport

[Maxime Daniel]

Thanks

How/when MiniportInitialize is triggered ?
I tried with NdisMRegisterMiniport at first, and the driver is loaded (DriverEntry is
called and succeed) but MiniportInitialize is not called. Should I specify something ?
There is no PnP event.

(Cameron Gutman <cameron.gutman(a)reactos.org>) Thu, 6 Mar 2014 22:30:49 -0500:

>   There’s no requirement to have any real hardware
> behind a miniport. You can use NdisMRegisterMiniport and return whatever media type you
> want in your MiniportInitialize function (most likely NdisMedium802_3 to use Ethernet
> framing).
>  
>  On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Maxime Daniel <ls(a)maxux.net> wrote:
>  
> >   Hello,
> >  
> >  I need to use NDIS NdisIMRegisterLayeredMiniport functions to provide a virtual ethernet
> > card. I read the documentation on MSDN and it seems that this functions is required to
> > build an adapter without physical link (eg, with no hardware IRQ).
> >  
> >  The problem is that this function is not implemented yet on reactos (svn rev. 62083). Is
> > someone can tell me if it's implementable or if there is an alternative to build a
> > virtual ethernet adapter with current implementation of NDIS.
> >  
> >  Thanks.
> >  
> >  -- 
> >  Daniel Maxime
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