Random debugging - Preparatory stage
In a depressing market as this with a timelimit of about 3 months to find another job I thought I would try something new. Yes the company I worked for is under consolidation, and I'm bit lucky that I've few more months on the payroll and very thankful to the management for it ...
So I started hacking ( not in the derogatory term :), the windows kernel socket(WSK) with ndis filter, and ndis miniport. All with ndis 6.0 version so that I can have test bed to understand the new interactions using NET_BUFFER_LIST and NET_BUFFER on the top of WSK related stuff ...
Hmm, where to start and how do I go about it?. First I know I can use the win 7 RC, that has the ndis6.0 support. So I made a test machine ( usually called target), then setup the debugging using bcdedit. I still use null serial cable, since I'm not using a heavy data trasfer between the two machines. If you don't know how to setup kernel debugging using bcdedit, you can always find informations from microsoft's msdn website. But don't miss the msconfig utility. This is a handy command line GUI utility that tells pretty much all the configuration you made so far. So check it out after you punch in your debugging informations using bcdedit commands...
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