What are the functions doing by Native WiFi filter driver?

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Hi All,

I am thinking that packet conversion alone happening in nwifi.sys. Is there any other significance for native wifi filter driver?

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All stuff related to Ethernet emulation over low-level Wi-Fi is there. This can probably even include WPA crypto.

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Maxim S. Shatskih
Microsoft MVP on File System And Storage
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> Hi All,
>
> I am thinking that packet conversion alone happening in nwifi.sys. Is there any other significance for native wifi filter driver?
>

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I removed the nwifi.sys(modified nwifi.sys to nwifi_1.sys in registry). Now I am unable to see the list of wireless adapters if use Ipconfig in cmd. Could you please tell the reason?

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So what? you’ve broken the Wi-Fi subsystem in Windows. The behavior is absolutely logical.

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Maxim S. Shatskih
Microsoft MVP on File System And Storage
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>I removed the nwifi.sys(modified nwifi.sys to nwifi_1.sys in registry). Now I am unable to see the list of wireless adapters if use Ipconfig in cmd. Could you please tell the reason?
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