[ros-dev] Loading failure of rtl8139.sys driver = OK + Ndisfunction unimplemented

[Filip Navara]

Eric Kohl wrote:

>Wouldn't it be better if WrapperConfigurationContext in the call to
>NdisMQueryAdapterResources was a pointer to the physical device objects
>device node rather than a handle to the miniport drivers registry key?
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No. In fact it was registry handle till NDIS4 and since NDIS5 it's a 
structure. I have this part partly rewritten in my tree.

>In this case NdisMQueryAdapterResource could retrieve the current resource
>list from the device node and other information, like the device instance
>id, are eaily accessible too.
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Incidentally I have NdisMQueryAdapterResource implemented in my local 
tree. It gets the resources from the AllocatedResources field in the 
NDIS_MINIPORT_BLOCK structure which is itself filled in the 
IRP_MN_START_DEVICE dispatch code. There are two problems with this:
1) The PnP resource assigning in kernel isn't implemented yet (only the 
untraslated boot configuration is reported to device now, but it might 
be enough for this case) We need to assign the resources to each device 
based on the resource requirements (see 
IRP_MN_QUERY_RESOURCE_REQUIREMENTS, IRP_MN_FILTER_RESOURCE_REQUIREMENTS 
and _DEVICE_NODE) and then translate them to bus neutral form. (I've 
written the translation code, but I seriously doubt it's correct.)
2) Currently the RTL8193 card isn't found by our PCI driver (which 
reports the resources) and so we need this too to proceed further. 
(Gerard/Hartmut, if you want to help me with this problem, please run 
http://www.volny.cz/xnavara/devcon.zip on your system under Windows and 
send me the results back).

Regards,
Filip