How to prevent an NDIS intermediate driver from being loaded at startup?

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I developed an NDIS intermediate driver with the emulator 4.2.
Now I want to try it on an iPaq with its standard retail OS and a WLAN card
that is actived "on click".
I do not want the driver to be loaded at startup since I wouldn't have any
idea what to do when the iPaq constantly crashs on startup. I guess I would
have to ship it to HP?

As far as I know to load an NDIS IM there needs to be an entry in HKLM\Comm
with its name. Unfortunately, this automatically results in it being loaded
at startup.
Can I make any indication that I want to have it loaded on demand,i.e. when
the WLAN interface comes up or I make an explicit
IOCTL_NDIS_REGISTER_ADAPTER?
Maybe by restricting the \Parms\UpperBind parameter? Maybe I can set the
group to something else than NDIS?

Thanks for any hints,

ken


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