Hardware Resources

For NDIS3 network adapter drivers, hardware resources for the card memory base address, base I/O address, DMA channel, and IRQ level are specified by a Logical Configuration entry in the INF file. These Logical Configuration entries are documented in the Windows 95 Device Information Files specification.

NDIS2 network adapter drivers store hardware resources in the parameters section (described in the following). The parameter key must be the same as the one used in Protocol.ini.

Note: On computers, IRQ2 and IRQ9 are really the same. For this reason PnP always refers to IRQ2 as IRQ9. If the network adapter driver requires that a 2 be passed to it for IRQ2, it must set the IRQ2 parameter flag (described in the next section).