Is it possible to have a general driver on a Network Card?

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Hi,
I want to write a general pnp driver rather than a miniport driver on a network card for some debugging purpose, so that I can control the card completely.

I want define to a my own class “dbgdrv” for this device, but the pci enumerates the device as “Ethernet controller” during “Found new hardware wizard”.Would this create any resource allocation problem in my general driver, for memory map etc. Should I take care anything else?. I am planning to write a win2k driver.

Thanks in advance,
Raja

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What is it that you can’t do in an NDIS Miniport but can in a “general
pnp driver”?

Note that you can use all system (ie. non-NDIS) functions in a
Miniport. But it will not be BINARY_COMPATIBLE (ie. run on W9X) and
you cannot get a certification from WHQL.

If you do not want Windows to recognize your card as a network card,
change the card’s PCI device type.

Stephan

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:08:48 -0800, xxxxx@amd.com wrote:

Hi,
I want to write a general pnp driver rather than a miniport driver on a network card for some debugging purpose, so that I can control the card completely.

I want define to a my own class “dbgdrv” for this device, but the pci enumerates the device as “Ethernet controller” during “Found new hardware wizard”.Would this create any resource allocation problem in my general driver, for memory map etc. Should I take care anything else?. I am planning to write a win2k driver.

Thanks in advance,
Raja

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