Native 802.11 Virtual WiFi OIDs

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Important

The Native 802.11 Wireless LAN interface is deprecated in Windows 10 and later. Please use the WLAN Device Driver Interface (WDI) instead. For more information about WDI, see WLAN Universal Windows driver model.

The Native 802.11 Virtual Wireless Fidelity (Virtual WiFi) object identifiers (OIDs) are applicable only to miniport drivers that support the Native 802.11 Virtual WiFi operation mode.

Note

The Native 802.11 Virtual WiFi operation mode is available in Windows 7 and later versions of the Windows operating systems.

In the following table, the R abbreviation specifies the requirements for Native 802.11 Extensible AP (ExtAP) OID query (Q), set (S), and NDIS 6.0 method (M) requests:

  • R
    Indicates that support for the object is required. The miniport driver must not fail set or query requests for the object by returning NDIS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED from its MiniportOidRequest function.
  • O
    Indicates that support for the object is optional. The miniport driver can either support query or set requests for the object, or the driver can fail the request by returning NDIS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED from its MiniportOidRequest function.
Name Q S M
OID_DOT11_CREATE_MAC R
OID_DOT11_DELETE_MAC R
OID_DOT11_VIRTUAL_STATION_CAPABILITY O