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STATUS_NDIS_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA
The request targets a media type outside the adapter contract
STATUS_NDIS_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA means the operation is being applied to the wrong kind of NDIS interface or to a driver path that does not expose the requested medium. NDIS separates miniport, filter, and protocol roles, and media-specific OIDs are not interchangeable across Ethernet, Native 802.11, WAN, Token Ring, or other historical media families.
This status is most useful when paired with the OID or operation that failed. A Wi-Fi-specific object sent to an Ethernet miniport, an obsolete Token Ring request sent to a modern adapter, or a binding that selected the wrong lower interface can all produce a media mismatch while the device itself remains healthy.
Evidence that narrows it
- Record the failing OID, the miniport media type, and the binding path selected by the caller.
- Check whether a filter driver forwarded a media-specific request to a lower component that cannot implement it.
- Do not treat this as link-down unless the adapter state and media-connect indication also point there.
References
- Microsoft: NDIS driver stack
- Microsoft: Miniport adapter OID requests
- Microsoft: Miniport adapter states and operations
- Microsoft: MS-ERREF NTSTATUS values
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