NDIS - True OR False

Weongyo Jeong weongyo.jeong at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 23:00:33 PDT 2009


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:59:22PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> In article <41D96B7F-F76D-4F35-BA1D-0EDF810E6140 at young-alumni.com>,
> "Chris" writes:
> 
> >True OR False
> >
> >1) NDIS only works with XP drivers.
> 
> Can't answer that as I've never needed to try a Vista driver.

AFAIK NDISulator try to mimic that it works on Windows XP and the driver
depends on the version of NDIS driver that normally it's 5.0 or 5.1.  I
know Vista driver uses NDIS 6.x that isn't supported by NDISulator.

> >2) NDIS only works with 32-bit drivers and wont work on amd64.
> 
> False, unless someone has broken it recently.  Project Evil has worked
> on 64-bit systems (and *requires* 64-bit drivers on such systems)
> since I bought my current laptop ~three years ago.

Yes it should work on amd64.  If not it's a regression.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong



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