How to load a NDIS miniport driver in WinXP ( without the actual device)?

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Hi,

I’m developing a device driver for an NIC in WinXP.

However I don’t have the NIC yet.

What I want is ,

1)I want this driver to be loaded and when I try to enumerate network
adapters, I want my device also to be listed ( though it is NOT
installed)

Actually,

I got my driver loaded by creating a Registry key under
HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Services.

Also in my driver the call to NdisMRegisterMiniport() succeeds. However
MiniportInitialize function doesn’t get called!

Please help

Regards

Vidhya

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Create your device as virtual adapter.

Keywords search: INF, DDInstall, NCF_VIRTUAL

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“Vidhya Vasudevan” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
Hi,

I’m developing a device driver for an NIC in WinXP.

However I don’t have the NIC yet.

What I want is ,

1)I want this driver to be loaded and when I try to enumerate network adapters, I want my device also to be listed ( though it is NOT installed)

Actually,

I got my driver loaded by creating a Registry key under HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Services.

Also in my driver the call to NdisMRegisterMiniport() succeeds. However MiniportInitialize function doesn’t get called!

Please help

Regards

Vidhya