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What's New at PCAUSA
| February 26, 2007 |
"PCAGizmo" NDIS OID Tracing Tool
Available for Download |
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The "PCAGizmo" software consists of NDIS
5 amd NDIS 6 filter drivers and a companion Win32 console application
that work together to log NDIS OID requests and NDIS status indications as
they are passed between NDIS miniport, filter and protocol drivers.
One use of PCAGizmo is to
study 802.11 OID operations performed by wireless management software. Some
output from PCAGizmo is provided in the article "NDIS IEEE 802.11 Notes" at
NDIS.com. See
http://ndis.com/papers/ieee802_11_notes.htm.
PCAGizmo Information...
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| December 3, 2006 |
Rawether for Windows V5.5.18.05
Released |
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The primary goal of this release is to
provide Windows Vista support with a minimum of effort. NDIS 6 drivers and
new Rawether functionality is not included in this release.
Visit the Rawether for Windows website...
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| November 6, 2006 |
NDIS Developer Tools
Update (OIDScope V6.0.20.02) |
More
Information |
PCAUSA has released an update to the OIDScope application
that includes limited support Vista Native Wi-Fi. A rudimentary "DOT11"
property page has been added that displays some simple DOT11 information.
This release includes a
small modification that allows OIDScope to properly detect the Intel 3945ABG
NIC and show the 802.11 property page on pre-Vista Windows versions.
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| November 17, 2005 |
Rawether for Windows V5.5.18.04
Released |
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This release includes several bug fixes to
the Rawether base runtime components (driver and DLL) and initial suport for
Visual Studio 2005.
Visit the Rawether for Windows website...
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| April 5, 2005 |
Rawether for Windows V5.5.18.03
Released |
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The primary purpose of this release is to
provide support for the RTM build of Windows x64 Edition (AMD64) platforms.
The release also includes some fixes and improvements specific to the
Rawether .NET C# applications and class libraries.
With this release the base Rawether for
Windows Win32 product provides a uniform 'C' and C++ application programming
interface across these platforms:
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Windows 9X/ME |
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Windows NT 4.0 |
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Windows 2000 |
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Windows XP - Including x64 Edition
(AMD64) |
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Windows Server 2003 - Including x64 Edition
(AMD64) |
The companion Rawether .NET product supports
managed .NET 1.1 applications (Samples are C#...) across these platforms:
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Windows ME |
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Windows 2000 |
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Windows XP - Including x64 Edition
(AMD64) |
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Windows Server 2003 - Including x64 Edition
(AMD64) |
The Rawether runtime components support both
32-bit and 64-bit applications on Windows x64 Edition (AMD64).
Visit the Rawether for Windows website...
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| January 28,
2005 |
Advanced TDI Samples
V2.02.06.14 Released |
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This release includes a systematic review of the PCAUSA TDI
samples and migration to use of the Windows Server 2003 DDK. Highlights of
this release include:
| Improved support for tracking remote
addresses in TDI filter TCP and UDP event
handlers.
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| Several bug fixes.
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| Significant revision and enhancement of
one TDI filter sample (TDILpbkH) to use OS-specific enhancements found
only in Windows XP and higher.
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| Most TDI samples (particularly TDI
filter samples) have been reviewed and tested on 4-way Windows Server 2003
system.
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For more details about the
changes provided in V2.02.06.14 see the
Release Notes.
For general information
about the PCAUSA Advanced TDI Samples see the
TDI Samples Product Information page.
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| November 8, 2004 |
TTCP Transmitter .NET
Framework Edition |
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The TtcpTx application is a
forms-based TTCP Transmitter. It allows easy entry of the basic TTCP test
parameters and then performs the transmit operation using an instance the
.NET TcpClient class. It's not perfect by a long shot, but it is functional
and may be useful to a few of you.
TTCP test parameters can be saved to a file and then
opened later if desired.
More...
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| October 26, 2004 |
Rawether .NET is
Here!!! |
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Rawether .NET is a .NET Framework API written in C# that provides a
uniform interface between user-mode applications and PCAUSA NDIS drivers.
Basically, it is a C# version of the current Rawether for Windows 'C' API -
but greatly extended. Rawether .NET provides a rich, consistent NDIS
user-mode .NET Framework API across the Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows
XP, Windows Server 2003 platforms.
Beta testing uncovered one "real" bug in some
overloads of the .NET SetInformation method. Based on feedback some
additional 802.11 classes were added to simplify setting WEP and WPA keys.
In addition, this release includes a new C#
forms-based application in addition to the console application provided with
the initial Beta. The C# NDIScope application includes a simple packet
capture dialog intended to illustrate that Rawether .NET does include a
practical .NET packet collection interface. The packet collection dialog us
(very) loosely modeled after the well-known TcpDump utility.
See
Introduction to
Rawether .NET.
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| September 7, 2004 |
Rawether V5.5.18.01 Maintenance Release |
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Bug Fixes in V5.5 802.11 Helper Functions
Unfortunately the initial release of Rawether
V5.5 included two bugs in the 802.11 helper functions. These have been fixed in
this maintenance release:
| WLAN_Supports802_11 Function -
Failed to detect some 802.11g adapters. |
| WLAN_SetSsid Function - Was not
functional. |
See
Detailed Release Notes.
Rawether .NET C# Programming Interface - Beta 1
Rawether .NET is a .NET Framework API written in
C# that provides a uniform interface between
user-mode applications and PCAUSA NDIS drivers. Basically, it is a C# version of
the current Rawether for Windows 'C' API - but greatly extended. Rawether .NET
provides a rich, consistent NDIS
user-mode .NET Framework API across the Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server
2003 platforms.
This release of Rawether includes Beta 1 of Rawether .NET.
See
Introduction to Rawether .NET.
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| September 7, 2004 |
NDIS Developer Tools
Update (OIDScope V5.5.18.01) |
More
Information |
PCAUSA has released an update to the OIDScope application
that fixes a bug associated with detection of some 802.11g Wi-Fi adapters.
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| August 27, 2004 |
An Update to Rawether .NET Pre-Beta Documentation
Available |
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Rawether .NET is
a .NET Framework API that provides a uniform API between user-mode
applications and NDIS drivers. Basically, it is a C# version of the current
Rawether for Windows 'C' API - but greatly extended.
The initial Rawether .NET release will
provide this rich, consistent NDIS user-mode API across the Windows ME,
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 platforms as well as the
Windows CE-based Pocket PC 2003 and Pocket PC 2003 platforms to the current
Rawether for Windows NDIS protocol driver suite.
(Future releases are even more
interesting...)
See
Rawether .NET Is Coming!!!
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| July 1, 2004 |
Reduced Pricing for Rawether for
Windows CE |
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PCAUSA is reducing the price of Rawether for
Windows CE by up to 40-percent. See the new price list.
Rawether for
Windows CE Price List
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| June 7, 2004 |
Rawether V5.5 Released |
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This is a new
major release of Rawether for Windows - the first major update since the
release of V5.0 in December, 1998. Features in Rawether V5.5.17.00 include:
| Address Side-By-Side Rawether Runtime
Installation Conflicts
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| Expanded Support for 802.11 Adapter
Management
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| Support For Windows XP 64-Bit Extended
Edition
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| Overhaul of Rawether Win32 NDIS DLL
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And more...
See
What's New in Rawether V5.5
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| April 14, 2004 |
Rawether V5.03.16.58 Released |
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Interim bug fix release for bug introduced in
V5.03.16.57. The flaw was in kernel-mode string parsing code used to
extract ServiceName from the RegistryPath in DriverEntry routine.
This bug has the effect of causing the creation of a bogus driver
ServiceName and SymbolicLink name under some conditions. On some systems
running WLANDetect the first time would succeed. However, running
WLANDetect a second time would fail. Since it was a string-related bug
there could have been other unpredictable problems as well.
Customers using V5.03.16.57 should upgrade to V5.03.16.58.
See
Detailed Release Notes.
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April 20, 2004 |
NDIS Developer Tools
Update |
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More
Information |
The
OIDScope application has been extensively reviewed as one part of the next
release of Rawether for Windows. If you are using an earlier version of
OIDScope you probably will want to update to this release. The 802.11
Property Page may be of particular interest to some developers. The ability
to make a NDIS query on a custom OID may be of interest to others.
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802.11 Property Page for Windows XP and
higher
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Custom OID Query (User entry of OID value)
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Support for Windows XP 64-Bit
Edition (AMD64)
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Meaningful icons in adapter
chooser list
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Better behavior when returning
from standby/hibernation
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HTML Help file.
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Various application improvements
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| February 15,
2004 |
PCAUSA Discontinues
NDIS-Hooking Samples |
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February
15, 2004
-- PCAUSA is discontinuing new sales of the NDIS-Hooking samples. Although
these samples have served many customers well, they are "fragile" and
tedious to maintain. In addition, it is not expected that the NDIS-Hooking
methodology can keep pace with technology improvements such as 64-bit
Windows and changes expected in future versions of Windows such as
"Longhorn". In addition,
the revenue stream derived from these samples is not sufficient to justify
ongoing maintenance and product improvement. |
| December 15,
2003 |
New Issue of
Windows Driver Developer's Digest |
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Vol. 1 No. 5
of WD3 has several new articles of
specific interest to NDIS developers:
- Extending The Microsoft PassThru NDIS Intermediate Driver
Part 2 - Two IP Address
Blocking NDIS IM Drivers
- By Thomas Divine, Windows Driver
Developer's Digest, Vol.1 No. 5,
December 15, 2003
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| July 29,
2003 |
PCAUSA Releases
Rawether for Windows CE 4.2 (Pocket PC 2003) |
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July 29,
2003
-- PCAUSA extends Rawether for Windows CE to include support for Windows CE
4.2 (Pocket PC 2003).
Now
common application sources can be used to build applications that "directly"
access NDIS network interface card (NIC) drivers on both Pocket
PC 2002 and Pocket PC 2003. Rawether consists of a
dynamically-loaded NDIS protocol driver and API that allows a Win32
application to access NDIS LAN adapters to make NDIS requests to query and
set information and to send and receive "raw" Ethernet packets.
For More Information Visit:
[ PCAUSA
Embedded Website... ]
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| July 15,
2003 |
New Issue of
Windows Driver Developer's Digest |
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Vol. 1 No. 3
of WD3 has several new articles of
specific interest to NDIS developers:
- Testing Network Drivers with the NDIS Test Tool
- By Stephan Wolf,
Windows Driver
Developer's Digest, Vol.1 No. 3, July 15, 2003
- Extending The Microsoft PassThru NDIS Intermediate Driver
Part 1 - Adding a DeviceIoControl Interface
- By Thomas Divine,
Windows Driver
Developer's Digest, Vol.1 No. 3, July 15, 2003
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| June 15,
2003 |
NDIS IM Driver Samples V3.05.06.16 Released |
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More
Information |
This is an
extensive update to the PCAUSA NDIS Intermediate (IM) driver samples.
| Bug fixes. |
| Enhancements. |
| Use newer DDK Build Environment,
Prefast checked, DV checked |
| Extensive testing using HCT 11.2 (to
extent possible with PCAUSA resources) |
For additional information:
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