NDIS on winxp

[andrew]

Hello,

I'm new to using NDIS and figuring out what I can and can't do with it.

A fair amount of documentation refers to structures and funcs defined in
Nuiouser.h. This header seems to be available for my Win CE and pocket PC
SDK's, but not for my general winxp environment on a laptop/notebook. So my
question is, how do I get the same functionality for my general winxp
environment? I'm not doing any device driver development, I just want to
query information from local adapters. Do I need to get the DDK from
Microsoft just for doing simple queries? Everything for NDIS seems very
oriented to handheld mobile devices, but I want to get some information for
wireless devices on a laptop running XP as well.

Thanks,
Andrew

[Ashok K Kumar]

For querying Network adaptors, you can use IP Helper API's like
GetAdaptorInfo(), GetNetworkParams and host of other functions. These set of
API's are also available in CE and pocketpc platform.

You can also use WMI from Windows 2000 onwards.
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Ashok K Kumar
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"andrew" <no****@thorsolutions.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

I'm new to using NDIS and figuring out what I can and can't do with it.

A fair amount of documentation refers to structures and funcs defined in
Nuiouser.h. This header seems to be available for my Win CE and pocket PC
SDK's, but not for my general winxp environment on a laptop/notebook. So my question is, how do I get the same functionality for my general winxp
environment? I'm not doing any device driver development, I just want to
query information from local adapters. Do I need to get the DDK from
Microsoft just for doing simple queries? Everything for NDIS seems very
oriented to handheld mobile devices, but I want to get some information for wireless devices on a laptop running XP as well.

Thanks,
Andrew

[andrew]

Thanks a lot... just what I was looking for.

"Ashok K Kumar" <As*********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:eS**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

For querying Network adaptors, you can use IP Helper API's like
GetAdaptorInfo(), GetNetworkParams and host of other functions. These set
of
API's are also available in CE and pocketpc platform.

You can also use WMI from Windows 2000 onwards.
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Ashok K Kumar
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"andrew" <no****@thorsolutions.com> wrote in message
news:Om**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I'm new to using NDIS and figuring out what I can and can't do with it.

A fair amount of documentation refers to structures and funcs defined in
Nuiouser.h. This header seems to be available for my Win CE and pocket
PC
SDK's, but not for my general winxp environment on a laptop/notebook. So

my

question is, how do I get the same functionality for my general winxp
environment? I'm not doing any device driver development, I just want to
query information from local adapters. Do I need to get the DDK from
Microsoft just for doing simple queries? Everything for NDIS seems very
oriented to handheld mobile devices, but I want to get some information

for

wireless devices on a laptop running XP as well.

Thanks,
Andrew

[parveenjain]

This question also helped in my developement and thanks from me too.

I Just have one more question relating to that , Why do we require NDIS
driver (what I got from specs is that this is also used for controlling
the network adapters).
Where is the difference between there usage ??
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parveenjain