New for Windows 7: Mobile Broadband Miniport Driver Documentation
Windows 7 has added new device driver interfaces (DDIs) to provide support for Mobile Broadband (MB) devices, beginning with Windows 7 Beta.
MB miniport drivers are based on the NDIS 6.20 model. You can learn more about NDIS 6.20 at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd568055.aspx.
The MB DDIs consist of 21 new OIDs, 20 new NDIS status notifications specific to MB, and their associated structures and enumerations including:
- Features to describe the class of MB device, such as CDMA-based (1xRTT/1xEV-DO/1xEV-DO RevA/1xEvDO RevB) or GSM-based (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA), and its capabilities
- WWAN network registration and service activation
- Packet data service
- Data service handoff
- SMS messaging
- Signal strength feedback
- Vendor-specific features
To learn more about writing an MB miniport driver for Windows 7, go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd445701.aspx.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd446088.aspx for the MB reference documentation.
-- Kevin Shirley [MSFT], Programming Writer
