

After a miniport driver successfully activates a port, the driver must deactivate the port before it can free the port.

To deactivate NDIS ports, a miniport driver sends a port deactivation Plug and Play (PnP) event to NDIS. NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) is a Windows specification for how communication protocol programs (such as TCP/IP) and network device driver should communicate with each other. Interfacing with higher-level drivers, such as filter drivers, intermediate drivers, and protocol drivers. What is NDIS miniport driver?Īn NDIS miniport driver has two basic functions: Managing a network interface card (NIC), including sending and receiving data through the NIC. Protocol drivers are the components that interprets the settings of linked tags, converts into data packets, write the packet on the communication port, takes the response received by communication port, decodes the response and update the tags. Is this driver (remote NDIS compatible device) available for download here? I have searched in the downloads page but not found anything specific to RNDIS.Introduction. I have asked Microsoft about this (two identical computers, only difference is the windows update- seems pretty obvious that they have changed something). The driver has been available on windows releases for years, and until now we've not had trouble finding it preinstalled. On the updated machine, the driver doesn't appear in the list. On the non-updated machine we can choose this driver from a list (of drivers available on the machine, presented via the device manager) when we plug in an RNDIS usb gadget (this gadget is our product). The updated machine seems to be missing drivers for the "Remote NDIS compatible device".

One of their NUCs has the" build 2004" windows 10 update on it, another has not yet been updated. RNDIS drivers are needed on the windows machine to make this work. They connect these NUCs to our product (essentially a linux machine) via USB to provide a network interface between the NUC and our product. Some customers of mine are using intel NUC NUC5i5RYKs with win 10 on them.
