Chapter 3 DriverEntry and Initialization

This chapter describes the miniport NIC DriverEntry function and the MiniportInitialize function. Both are mandatory functions provided by any NDIS miniport driver in Windows NT® and in any Microsoft operating system that supports Win32.

Other miniport functions that are related to initialization; the reset function, shutdown function and the halt function, as well as the query and set requests are described here.

The contents include:

• A description of the DriverEntry function in Section 3.1

• A description of the MiniportInitialize function in Section 3.2

• A description of the MiniportQueryInformation function in Section 3.3

• A description of the MiniportSetInformation is called in Section 3.4

• A description of the MiniportReset function in Section 3.5

• A description of the MiniportShutdown function in Section 3.6

• A description of the MiniportHalt function in Section 3.7