RE: Wireless adapter for new computer re TUNTAP
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general |
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Joe Monk wrote: > Check this table to find the *supported* ndis versions > by platform... Ndis 5.0 is clearly no longer supported > and is obsolete. While it may be true that the current version of the Windows Driver Kit no longer supports 5.x, that's only for new driver development written using the latest, most current version of the Windows Driver Kit. If you use such a version of the Driver Kit during your driver development and try to call a NDIS 5.x API, you'll get a build error. The Driver Kit won't understand you. It doesn't contain any knowledge of NDIS 5.x. All support for NDIS 5.x has been removed. The Windows Operating System itself however, still supports existing device drivers that were written using an older 5.x version of the Driver Kit. It would be completely ridiculous for it not to. And yes, I'm sure at SOME point in the future, some future version of Windows might decide to drop support for NDIS 5.x entirely (i.e. not just in the Windows Driver Kit but in the operating system itself too, such that NDIS 5.x drivers will no longer load/run AT ALL on such a version of Windows), but I'm just saying that's unlikely to happen "any time soon", that's all. WinPCap 4.13, a NDIS 5.x device driver, currently works just fine on modern versions of Windows, and will likely *continue* to work just fine "for a while yet". HOW LONG that period of time is (how long that "while" is), is of course unknown. -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories http://www.softdevlabs.com mail: [email protected]