Hi Friends,
I am totally new to driver programming. For one of the projects in my
lab at utah state university, I need to put a wireless pc card, sitting on
pcmcia bus, in rfmon mode in windows xp. After searching a lot for such an
driver I discovered that there are no rfmon supporting drivers for windows
(there are but they are proprietary). So the only option I have is to write
one.
Can someone guide me in to where to start from? I know this is a very
open ended question, but would appreciate all help.
Vinay
The NDIS miniport DDK driver samples will be helpful. These are primarily
Ethernet, but do illustrate implementation of the upper NDIS miniport
interface as well as how to use the NDIS library to access adapter hardware.
You will need to contact adapter vendors to get the propritary information
that you need to place specific cards in “rfmon” mode.
You may look at Windows CE 5.0 as an alternative platform. Windows CE 5
supports some “native Wi-Fi” functionality that won’t be available on
Windows until the Longhorn timeframe.
Good luck,
Thomas F. Divine, Windows DDK MVP
http://www.rawether.net
“Vinay Patel” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Hi Friends,
> I am totally new to driver programming. For one of the projects in my
> lab at utah state university, I need to put a wireless pc card, sitting on
> pcmcia bus, in rfmon mode in windows xp. After searching a lot for such an
> driver I discovered that there are no rfmon supporting drivers for windows
> (there are but they are proprietary). So the only option I have is to
> write one.
> Can someone guide me in to where to start from? I know this is a very
> open ended question, but would appreciate all help.
>
> Vinay
>
>
One way to start, assuming you dont have any preference over any particular
wi-fi card, you go to microsoft website for XP embedded and WinCE, I think
they are now call embedded .net, and you can down load or order trial kits
for embedded development ( they are valid for 180 days, nothing could be
better than that ). Now those embedded CD’s have source examples for
different RF vendors ( for example proxim and others ), you might want to
take a look at those and get a card that matches with the chip-set, then
following the ddk of XP, you might have a path to go to … Yah, it is in
reverse direction but an alternate way !!!
-pro
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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Vinay Patel
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:28 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] network driver for XP (getting started)
Hi Friends,
I am totally new to driver programming. For one of the projects in my
lab at utah state university, I need to put a wireless pc card, sitting on
pcmcia bus, in rfmon mode in windows xp. After searching a lot for such an
driver I discovered that there are no rfmon supporting drivers for windows
(there are but they are proprietary). So the only option I have is to write
one.
Can someone guide me in to where to start from? I know this is a very
open ended question, but would appreciate all help.
Vinay
Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at
http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256
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Windows contains no universal ways of doing this for any wireless card.
Such a software will be totally hardware-dependent and vendor-dependent, and
possibly will require some information from the card vendor.
You need some fully-described and open hardware to write your own driver.
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Vinay Patel”
Newsgroups: ntdev
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 3:28 AM
Subject: [ntdev] network driver for XP (getting started)
> Hi Friends,
> I am totally new to driver programming. For one of the projects in my
> lab at utah state university, I need to put a wireless pc card, sitting on
> pcmcia bus, in rfmon mode in windows xp. After searching a lot for such an
> driver I discovered that there are no rfmon supporting drivers for windows
> (there are but they are proprietary). So the only option I have is to write
> one.
> Can someone guide me in to where to start from? I know this is a very
> open ended question, but would appreciate all help.
>
> Vinay
>
>
>
> —
> Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at
http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256
>
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