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41 NDIS drivers for use with
54 NDIS driver into a data file which
57 compatibility driver module.
59 drivers consist of two main parts: a
61 file, which contains the actual driver executable code,
64 file, which provides the
67 identifier information and a list of driver-specific registry keys.
70 utility can convert these files into a header file that is compiled
73 to create an object code module that can be linked into
80 file is typically required since only it contains device
81 identification data such as PCI vendor and device IDs or PCMCIA
85 file may be optionally omitted however,
88 utility will only perform the conversion of the
91 This is useful for debugging purposes only.
93 The options are as follows:
94 .Bl -tag -width indent
96 Open and parse the specified
98 file when performing conversion.
101 utility will parse this file and emit a device identification
102 structure and registry key configuration structures which will be
110 will emit a dummy configuration structure only.
112 Open and parse the specified
115 This file must contain a
120 utility will perform some manipulation of the sections within the
121 executable file to make runtime linking within the kernel a little
122 easier and then convert the image into a data array.
124 Specify an alternate name for the network device/interface which will
125 be created when the driver is instantiated.
126 If you need to load more
127 than one NDIS driver into your system (i.e., if you have two different
128 network cards in your system which require NDIS driver support), each
129 module you create must have a unique name.
130 Device can not be larger than
132 If no name is specified, the driver will use the
133 default a default name
136 Specify the output file in which to place the resulting data.
137 This can be any file pathname.
142 the data will be written to the standard output.
145 module expects to find the driver data in a file called
146 .Pa ndis_driver_data.h ,
147 so it is recommended that this name be used.
155 utility first appeared in
161 utility was written by
162 .An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@windriver.com .
168 file parser was written by
169 .An Matthew Dodd Aq mdodd@FreeBSD.org .