Cameron, can you take a look at https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-8292 ?
This describe the problem occured with the "on-the-fly load driver" that we need

Thanks

(Cameron Gutman <aicomman...@gmail.com>) Tue, 13 May 2014 15:29:47 -0500:

> InitializeHandler is called when the miniport is started by the PnP
> Manager. You can't force a miniport driver to be loaded without a device
> (whether real or virtual) for the miniport driver to control.
> 
> You'll want to just create an INF file that installs your miniport driver
> for some PnP ID that you make up. You can then call some SetupAPI functions
> to create a virtual device node and install your driver on it.
> 
> Here's an example of what you'll want to do to create the virtual device:
> https://github.com/CrowdStrike/Tortilla/blob/master/Tortilla/InstallTortillaDriver/InstallTortillaDriver.cppon
> lines 635-811
> And here's an example of the INF you'll need to write:
> https://github.com/CrowdStrike/Tortilla/blob/master/Tortilla/TortillaAdapter/netTor.inf
> 
> I don't know whether this will work on ReactOS. The code seems to be there,
> but that's no guarantee that it works ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> Cameron
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Maxime Daniel <l...@maxux.net> wrote:
> 
> > In fact, we the problem we face is the Miniport Initialize function which
> > seems to be ignored when using Virtual Ethernet (without hardware). This
> > problem seems linked with PnP Manager.
> >
> > In this version:
> > http://git.reactos.org/?p=reactos.git;a=blob;f=reactos/drivers/net/ndis/ndis/miniport.c;h=399ff1cb97546d9f0a43bb1c2a698ee831e3983b;hb=e3cbb33ea64b0bd3f56767dc397500ed6bb38e16
> > The InitializeHandler is hard-called on the end of NdisMRegisterMiniport.
> >
> > On the current implementation, the single time InitializeHandler is called
> > is on NdisIPnPStartDevice. How the PnP Manager can be called by another
> > driver to load it manually ? What should be done or edited to make it
> > possible ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > (Aleksey Bragin <alek...@reactos.org>) Thu, 08 May 2014 21:35:14 +0400:
> >
> > > Guys, any ideas?
> > > Cameron, maybe you could tell what direction to look?
> > >
> > > This blocks further work in the area.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Aleksey Bragin
> > >
> > > On 08.05.2014 19:15, Maxime Daniel wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm working on network virtualization support in ReactOS.
> > > > At this time, PoC works but I reach a point where I need a solution
> > that would allow to add and remove TAP (TAP-Win32 from OpenVPN for exemple)
> > Network Devices from kernel space, without user intervention.
> > > >
> > > > The problem right now is that there seems to be impossible in ReactOS
> > to have a proper way or tips and tricks to add/remove TAP devices without
> > rebooting the system. What should be fixed/edit to instanciate of TAP
> > device on the fly on the current implementation (r63193) ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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