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802.11 Wireless LAN Objects

The 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) object identifiers (OIDs), which are supported by NDIS 5.1, are available through Windows® Management Instrumentation (WMI). Miniport drivers for 802.11 NICs must support all mandatory WLAN OIDs.

The wireless LAN OIDs are defined in ntddndis.h. When building a driver that supports these OIDs, include ntddndis.h.

The following table provides a summary of the WLAN OIDs.

Length Q S Indication Name
6 M M   OID_802_11_BSSID
36 M M   OID_802_11_SSID
4 + Arr(4) O     OID_802_11_NETWORK_TYPES_SUPPORTED
4 M M   OID_802_11_NETWORK_TYPE_IN_USE
4 O O   OID_802_11_POWER_MODE
4 O O   OID_802_11_TX_POWER_LEVEL
4 M   M OID_802_11_RSSI
4 O O   OID_802_11_RSSI_TRIGGER
4 + Arr(88) M     OID_802_11_BSSID_LIST
0   M   OID_802_11_BSSID_LIST_SCAN
4 M M   OID_802_11_INFRASTRUCTURE_MODE
4 O O   OID_802_11_FRAGMENTATION_THRESHOLD
4 O O   OID_802_11_RTS_THRESHOLD
4 O     OID_802_11_NUMBER_OF_ANTENNAS
4 O O   OID_802_11_RX_ANTENNA_SELECTED
4 O O   OID_802_11_TX_ANTENNA_SELECTED
4 + Arr(4) M     OID_802_11_SUPPORTED_RATES
4 + Arr(4) O O   OID_802_11_DESIRED_RATES
16 M M   OID_802_11_CONFIGURATION
100 O     OID_802_11_STATISTICS
12 + Arr(1)   M   OID_802_11_ADD_WEP
4 M M   OID_802_11_WEP_STATUS
4   M   OID_802_11_REMOVE_WEP
0   M   OID_802_11_DISASSOCIATE
4 M M   OID_802_11_AUTHENTICATION_MODE
4 O O   OID_802_11_PRIVACY_FILTER
4   M   OID_802_11_RELOAD_DEFAULTS