dear all

i am a beginner for designning driver. the follows is my
thought and my question. i hope some one can help me read
this and tell its right or not.Thanks for your reading
first.

Description:

Question:I want to make miniport driver to get 802.11
frame, but i dont know which chip is used by this wireless
adapter. some one tell me what's kind of the chip you used
is very important for my miniport driver and i have
researched for a long time. unfortunately, i got nothing
in this. Originally, i use 3com wireless adapter(pci,
3CRDW696). For other reasons, i use the toshiba's which
built in laptop now.

Thought: i read the mux sample in ndis for Windows
ddk2003. what apeals to me is that notifyob can create
virtual network device on top of a single real lower
adapter for installing IM driver. Due to this situation,
can i use this notify object to bind my miniport driver to
virtual adapter which based on the real adapter? if i do
this, how can i control this virtual adapter to accomplish
my task, such as get some information from this adapter?
or others?

You've chosen one of the most difficult areas of the WinNT kernel to
begin in. For all the samples and all the APIs, NDIS is not
well-defined. I don't think you have a prayer of doing this in less than
6 months.

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James Antognini
Windows DDK MVP

At present, 802.11 miniports pass up a 802.3 frame to upper-layers, so you
won't be able to accomplish what you want at an Intermediate Driver level.

Bryan S. Burgin
bburgin@microsoft.com

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