Wi-Fi Direct Provision Discovery

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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 figure below shows the typical OID/Indications and message sequences when performing provision discovery between two PCs.

sequence diagram showing typical oid/indications and message sequences when performing provision discovery between two pcs

The miniport driver must follow the guidelines for Wi-Fi Direct Action Frames to support this exchange. The miniport driver is not required to maintain state between the various packets. It can treat each Receive Request/Indication Status/Process Direct OID/Send Response as a distinct action without attempting to correlate to previously exchanged packets.

See Also:

OID_DOT11_WFD_SEND_PROVISION_DISCOVERY_REQUEST

NDIS_STATUS_DOT11_WFD_PROVISION_DISCOVERY_REQUEST_SEND_COMPLETE

NDIS_STATUS_DOT11_WFD_RECEIVED_PROVISION_DISCOVERY_REQUEST

OID_DOT11_WFD_SEND_PROVISION_DISCOVERY_RESPONSE

NDIS_STATUS_DOT11_WFD_PROVISION_DISCOVERY_RESPONSE_SEND_COMPLETE

NDIS_STATUS_DOT11_WFD_RECEIVED_PROVISION_DISCOVERY_RESPONSE