Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista

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    - IWDFIoRequest::ForwardToIoQueue does not return immediately Hello, I am using different IoQueues for read, write, and IoControl requests in an UMDF driver. A request is first handled by an DefaultIoHandler and then forwarded to its respective queue using the method IWDFIoRequest::ForwardToIoQueue. I would expect, that this method returns immediately after it requeued the request, but instead the request is handled in the context of ForwardToIoQueue. Therefore, the call blocks until the request has been completed. This happens even when forwarding over multiple queues. Note, that these queues are configure with WdfIoQueueDispatchParallel or WdfIoQueueDispatchSequential. I suppose I could use manual queues from which I can retrieve requests in a thread separately created by my driver, to decouple the actual processing from the request. Is this the recommended way? What is the point of forwarding, if it does not return immediately? Thanks in advance for any comments or sugestions! Regards, Andre Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101348
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    - Mini-filters, are they supported Hi, I need to make a small file spy driver in kernel mode (mini-filter, i guess) It's not possible to this in usermode (UMDF), or ?? Should regular functions be used for this (FltXXX) or is it possible with new WDF The filter should'nt do much else than report some info about create/read/write's for particular files to user mode, where it will be validated and reported back to the driver. Thanks SSJ Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101346
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    - USB RNDIS halt message Hi, I am working on a wireless product, I am working on the USB Device side and making it as RNDIS CDC compliance. I am testing the device with Windows XP host RNDIS driver. During the intialization , the device is getting following messages 1)host sends the REMOTE_NDIS_INTIALIZE_MSG message 2)Deveice responds with the REMOTE_NDIS_INTIALIZE_CMPLT 3)host sent the REMOTE_NDIS_QUERY_MSG with OID "OID_GEN_SUPPORTED_LIST" 4)Device responded with the supported OID list 5)Host sends the REMOTE_NDIS_QUERY_MSG with OID OID_GEN_MAXIMUM_FRAME_SIZE 6)Device responded with the supported maximum transfer size(1500) 7)Host is sending the REMOTE_NDIS_HALT_MSG message How could i know from the host side, why it is sending the halt message. I have tried with even less frame size (64 bytes) in the response of OID_GEN_MAXIMUM_FRAME_SIZE but still host is sending the HALT message. Can you please tell what could be wrong with these sequence, how can i debug this, why host is sending the halt message. -best regards, Ravikishore Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101342
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    - Device Path Exerciser thread doesn't stopped I'm trying to use Device Path Exerciser to test my driver, but i found when the test start, my driver received create, clearup and close requests and then received a create request, later nothing request received from device path exerciser, while the device path exerciser shown the following message: DevPathExer has stopped making progress... Attempting to resume thread I don't know what's the problem Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101339
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    - Driver Installation Framework: newbie question I am not a device driver expert by any stretch of imagination. I am just an application programmer trying to package some drivers that are required by our application that interacts with external hardware devices using InstallShield 2008's driver installation framework. I have a really dumb question. The DIF wizard asks me to point it to an .inf file (belonging to, say, a printer driver). Once done, it automatically finds all the relevant .dll and .sys files. After InstallShield packages everything into setup.exe, I run it on the target machine and the driver files do get installed correctly but my question is what exactly is the meaning of "installation"? I was kindof thinking the framework will automatically add an icon for the printer (in the Start->Settings->Printers section) and associate the .inf file with it. Is that part still need to be done manually? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101330
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    - Retrieving the Buffer for EvtIoDeviceControl in a KMDF Driver After the application has called the function DeviceIoControl( hDevice, IOCTL_ISOCH_ATTACH_BUFFERS, pIsochAttachBuffers, ulBufferSize, pIsochAttachBuffers, ulBufferSize, &dwBytesRet, &overLapped); the kernel (t1394_EvtIoDeviceControl function in \WINDDK\6000\src\kmdf\1394\driver\ioctl.c) retrieves the input buffer with WdfRequestRetrieveInputBuffer(Request, 0, &ioBuffer, &bufLength) ; PVOID ioBuffer; I tried to get the output buffer, so I set PVOID outputBuffer = NULL; and used WdfRequestRetrieveOutputBuffer(Request, 0, &outputBuffer, &bufLength); With this function, I have got the buffer's adress in outputBuffer. (*(PISCHO_ATTACH_BUFFER)outputBuffer shows the buffer's adress and it's the same adress as input buffer) Because I want to get some Information(pIsochDescriptor) in application, I tried to write in the outputBuffer with RtlCopyMemory((PISOCH_ATTACH_BUFFERS)outputBuffer, IsochAttachBuffers, OutputBufferLength); ( I tried also with *((PISOCH_ATTACH_BUFFERS)outputBuffer) = *IsochAttachBuffers; ) After that, I can see that the informations are written in the outputBuffer. But if I try to get the Information in user-mode (I mean after the calling DeviceIoControl function), it seems that the informations got lost (pIsochAttachBuffers->pIsochDescriptor is still zero.) Can somebody explain this? How can I bring some information from kernel to user mode (application)? thanks in advance min. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101327
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    - Convert W2K3 drivers to W2K8 Hi We have a software system which contains 10 drivers, Mostly storage and filter drivers. All the drivers run on top of W2K3 servers. Is there an official guide\site\doc of what steps do we need to do in order to support W2K8 in our drivers? Thanks, Michael Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101326
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    - connecting to a handheld device using platform builder Hi, I have a MIPSII device with a WinCE 5.0 image flashed made by using AMDDBAU1100MIPSII BSP. What I like to know is how do I connect to this device using platform builder. This device has two serial ports, couple of USB ones and a Network port. I gave an ip address and connected a back to back cable to my host pc which has platform builder hoping that it would send bootme packets to my pc containing platform builder. I couldnot see anything. FYI the ip addresses in the host and the device are under the same subnet. I want to debug my driver and application in the platform builder just like I would do with a cepc machine. Can any one suggest me regarding this. If its not possible with platform builder, then how it is done. Thanks in advance Srinivas Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101325
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    - Troubleshooting driver installation Hi, I have a sound card driver that was successfully being installed on XP. Now on Vista I get 'A service installation section in this INF is invalid." How is it to troubleshoot that? Maybe there are tools in DDK that shows how everything is going on? Thanks. -- Andrei. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101317
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    - how to solve the problem after include wdm.h Hi all, when I include wdm.h in my .c file and then compile the project, for example in the source file in the ddk src directory. I will get a lot of error and warning, why and how can I solve this problem? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101315
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    - Do you recommend to use DMA in MPEG2 TS Video Streaming? Hi all, I am trying to stream MPEG2 TS data through USB to the PC for Directshow playback, i am developing a USB Avstream driver, understanding that DMA faster, uses less CPU time, but is quite hard to control and debug, my question is, do the experienced ones recommend to use DMA at all in this kind of application? or it dose not matter at all ? Thanks. -- -------------------------------------------- William Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101308
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    - Looking for a PCI sample driver for XP Please let me know where i can find the PCI sample drivers for XP. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101307
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    - extension units sample Dear all, In "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms803115.aspx", Could someone kindness tell me how to obtain "pUnkOuter" in the first line of the sample code? Much Thanks! -- Grap Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101305
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    - CoInstaller for class upper filter driver I'm working on a class upper filter driver for Image class. I need to do some operations after my filter driver has installed. I just want to know is there any way to write a CoInstaller for a class filter driver? Or, there is no concept of CoInstaller for a class filter driver? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101303
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    - How to map a UMA frame buffer from kernel to user mode Hi, I post this question again since the last subject is not clear. I'm trying to implement a method to map a reserved virtual space (created by MmAllocateMappingAddress and MmMapLockedPagesWithReservedMapping) from kernel to user mode process. From the DDK description for VideoPortMapMemory, it seems we can do UMA (universal memory architecture) frame buffer mapping as suggested in the comments. The steps are: 1. Call InitializeObjectAttributes to get object attributes; 2. Call ZwOpenSection to get the handle of the section object; 3. Call ZwmapViewOfSection to get the virtual address of the view; My question is how to set up the relation between the reserved virtual space and the section view, that's to say, how to find a section object to represent the reserved virtual space? Any expert can help to give a hint? Thanks Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101297
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    - VCM Hi, i've developed a VCM codec/decoder and its works fine when is used into an avi movie but when i create and asf (with FSDK) the Windows Media player never call ICM_COMPRESS (other players do it) has anybody else had this problem ? thanks.. DaNieL Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101296
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    - vista does not call DrvStartPage after DrvStartDoc on 3 new dell I have a user mode printer driver that works on windows 2000, xp, and vista. About 1000 working customers (15 windows 2000, 900+ windows xp, and about 30 vista machines). One customer installed it recently on new Dell desktop computer. When I turn on the embeded debug on customer's computer the vista OS calls DrvStartDoc and then instead of calling DrvStartPage the OS calls DrvDisableSurface, does not generate any output and it completes without error. three non working customers machines two identical machines Dell Optiplex 4677 with 32 vista business edition 2037k ram Intel processor. third customer machine has same problem with new dell computer optiplex 740 with amd 64x2 antholon dual core 4200 2.2ghz 2gb ram running 32 bit vista business my machine is satellite p105 (toshiba) vista ultimate 2gb mem Works on my laptop running vista and several other vista installations. Driver is based on C:\WinDDK\6000\src\print\msplot compiled with vista wdk released 12-5-6 using Windows XP x86 Checked Build Environment Things I have tried to fix problem: Driver signing has no effect. Installing vista option for LPD Print Service, and LPR Port Monitor on my vista. Any thoughts as to why these 3 different customer dell desktops have this behavior? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101295
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    - getting handle to device This one should be a no-brainer, I just added a dispatch routine to my bus filter driver that is supposed to return status information back. I register the interface in the AddDevice routine. This appears to be working, as I can see each instance enumerated under my GUID in the currentcontrolset\Control\DeviceClasses. The problem is after modifying the toaster examples enum application to use my GUID, I the SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces call fails and the last error is ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS. I double checked that I am using my new GUID, and that the correct number of instances of my device is in the registry. What I would like to know is how can I tell if my driver is not registering the interface correctly, or am I not accessing the interface correctly? Thanks Brian Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101293
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    - usb rndis device Hello, I am having a problem getting an USB RNDIS ethernet device that I have developed to work properly in Windows XP SP2. I am expecting the Windows provided class drivers usb8023/rndismp to be loaded. My device presents descriptor information as per the Microsoft RNDIS specification, but is not recognized and the complaint is "The device is not configured correctly". I have installed hot fix #890927 to no avail. Any insights would be most appreciated. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101290
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    - How to create driver installation package using Microsoft installer Hi, I heard that, using Visual studio & microsoft installet, driver installation package can be created, if anyone knows about the approach, could you please guide me. I am having the .sys, inf, .dll & .exe files as a package, i know about using Application wizard these files can be placed whereever we wish, but how to install the driver from here? Thanks, Kota. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101288
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    - Memory leak from IoCreateDevice and driver loading Hello, We're having a memory leak problem, and it looks like it comes from Windows. Windows leaks about 50-100 bytes anytime a driver gets loaded/unloaded, affecting both the device insertion case and manual load/unload of drivers via service control manager. The problem can easily be seen by using the ddk example and pooltag utility. - Using WDK, build <wdk>\src\general\ioctl\sys driver, and install it - run the awesome pooltag utility from OSR (http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=98) Steps to reproduce: - launch pooltag utility. Filter the result to view only 'IoSe' and 'Pp ' tags. - install sioctl.sys from the ddk so you can "net start" and "net stop" it - anytime we "net start" and "net stop" sioctl driver, we see: - On Vista 32, 1-block 40-byte leak from 'IoSe', and 1-block 32-byte leak from 'Pp ' - On Vista 32 SP1 RC1, same thing - On XP SP2, no leak from 'IoSe' pool, but 1-block leak from 'Pp ' pool - No leak on Win2000 We did more debugging, using the poolhittag trick, and here's the result on Vista32: kd> ed poolhittag 'eSoI' =====================>>>> HERE : "net start sioctl" kd> g *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for sioctl.sys Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) nt!DbgBreakPoint: 81c578ce cc int 3 kd> k ChildEBP RetAddr 82cbb984 81d85327 nt!DbgBreakPoint 82cbb9a8 81d85287 nt!IopCreateSecurityDescriptorPerType+0x86 82cbb9c8 81d82fef nt!IopCreateDefaultDeviceSecurityDescriptor+0x115 82cbba78 909b4c11 nt!IoCreateDevice+0xcc WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong. 82cbbad4 909b7054 sioctl+0x4c11 82cbbb18 81d871e0 sioctl+0x7054 82cbbcfc 81d8766f nt!IopLoadDriver+0x7ec 82cbbd44 81c78e18 nt!IopLoadUnloadDriver+0x70 82cbbd7c 81e254a8 nt!ExpWorkerThread+0xfd 82cbbdc0 81c9145e nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x9d 00000000 00000000 nt!KiThreadStartup+0x16 =====================>>>> HERE : "net stop sioctl" kd> ed poolhittag ' pP' =====================>>>> HERE : "net start sioctl". kd> g Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) nt!DbgBreakPoint: 81c578ce cc int 3 kd> k ChildEBP RetAddr 82cbb9c0 81d9e494 nt!DbgBreakPoint 82cbb9d0 81da2894 nt!IopAllocateUnicodeString+0x1b 82cbb9e4 81da2080 nt!PnpConcatenateUnicodeStrings+0x1e 82cbba40 81da353b nt!PipServiceInstanceToDeviceInstance+0x133 82cbba9c 81da2922 nt!PnpIsAnyDeviceInstanceEnabled+0xd7 82cbbb14 81d86e6b nt!PnpPrepareDriverLoading+0x61 82cbbcfc 81d8766f nt!IopLoadDriver+0x478 82cbbd44 81c78e18 nt!IopLoadUnloadDriver+0x70 82cbbd7c 81e254a8 nt!ExpWorkerThread+0xfd 82cbbdc0 81c9145e nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x9d 00000000 00000000 nt!KiThreadStartup+0x16 kd> g Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) nt!DbgBreakPoint: 81c578ce cc int 3 kd> k ChildEBP RetAddr 82cbba48 81da355a nt!DbgBreakPoint 82cbba9c 81da2922 nt!PnpIsAnyDeviceInstanceEnabled+0xf6 82cbbb14 81d86e6b nt!PnpPrepareDriverLoading+0x61 82cbbcfc 81d8766f nt!IopLoadDriver+0x478 82cbbd44 81c78e18 nt!IopLoadUnloadDriver+0x70 82cbbd7c 81e254a8 nt!ExpWorkerThread+0xfd 82cbbdc0 81c9145e nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x9d 00000000 00000000 nt!KiThreadStartup+0x16 kd> g Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) nt!DbgBreakPoint: 81c578ce cc int 3 kd> k ChildEBP RetAddr 82cbb93c 81dae37a nt!DbgBreakPoint 82cbb994 81dae0ff nt!PiUpdateDriverDBCache+0xf9 82cbba00 81dadf6b nt!PiIsDriverBlocked+0x141 82cbba58 81dadd64 nt!PiLookupInDDB+0x160 82cbba90 81da2b28 nt!PpCheckInDriverDatabase+0x69 82cbbb14 81d86e6b nt!PnpPrepareDriverLoading+0x267 82cbbcfc 81d8766f nt!IopLoadDriver+0x478 82cbbd44 81c78e18 nt!IopLoadUnloadDriver+0x70 82cbbd7c 81e254a8 nt!ExpWorkerThread+0xfd 82cbbdc0 81c9145e nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x9d 00000000 00000000 nt!KiThreadStartup+0x16 From the trace, it's easy to conclude that there's one memory leak from IoCreateDevice() and another memory leak from unicode string manipulation during driver load. I tried calling IoCreateDeviceSecure() instead, but the result is the same leak, since IoCreateDeviceSecure() ends up calling IoCreateDevice(): 82cbb984 81d85327 nt!DbgBreakPoint 82cbb9a8 81d85287 nt!IopCreateSecurityDescriptorPerType+0x86 82cbb9c8 81d82fef nt!IopCreateDefaultDeviceSecurityDescriptor+0x115 82cbba78 90996c11 nt!IoCreateDevice+0xcc 82cbbad4 90999054 sioctl!IoDevObjCreateDeviceSecure+0xe0 [d:\vistartm\base\wdmlib\wdmsec\io\iodevobj.c @ 284] 82cbbb18 81d871e0 sioctl!DriverEntry+0x44 [d:\winddk\src\general\ioctl\sys\sioctl.c @ 131] 82cbbcfc 81d8766f nt!IopLoadDriver+0x7ec 82cbbd44 81c78e18 nt!IopLoadUnloadDriver+0x70 82cbbd7c 81e254a8 nt!ExpWorkerThread+0xfd 82cbbdc0 81c9145e nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x9d 00000000 00000000 nt!KiThreadStartup+0x16 - Has anyone else seen this before? - Is this a genuine Windows kernel leak bug? Thanks! -- Irwan Djajadi National Instruments -- http://www.ni.com (4FJ8B6VF) Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101285
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    - HowTo Network Video Recorder (NVR) Hello, Anyone doing NVR? I wonder what is the basic principle. There are hell NVRs from different vendors that accept MPEG-4 stream, but interesting part is that these NVRs will just work with IP cameras from same vendor. Although those IP cameras also provide MPEG-4 stream. If cam and nvr is using same (MPEG-4) streaming then why we can't have interoperability ? cheers, ali Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101281
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    - LIST OF THE GODDAMN VIRUS ON WINDOWS XP, 2K, 2003, Etc... I remember Bill Gates announced his highly secured Windows in 2001, now we're in 2007 we still have with the same GodDamn Virus... Here they are: fastopen.exe printer.exe shell.exe spoolvs.exe findfst.exe tmp??.exe xxxtemp.exe wowfx.dll << this one is tricky to remove, run Windows in Safe mode, put a Folder/File there with the same name to block it. and lots more you name them... Microsoft Anti Virus program should not ask the user if they want to run or not runing the program in question. I think MS should have a signature to verify their own components. Every where I go, I heard people complained about being sick of Virus. This is unproductive for society and for Microsoft as well for not designing the OS correctly. Yup! Shame on Microsoft, because you provided many holes (10 places at least) for the intruders to place their Virus. You should watch those holes and do not allow any one to plug in anything while on the internet. I am sure the Virus writers can screw Vista as well, I know you have a better file protection but they will find a way to intrude it. Why? because Windows is a centralized system unlike Unix. Oh by the way, Wake up America, your enemies didn't hate your Freedom, they hate your Interference corrupting their Kingdom (Said Osama BinLadin, at least he is being Honest, unlike your president making things up endlessly...) Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101274
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    - LIST OF THE GODDAMN VIRUS ON WINDOWS XP, 2K, 2003, Etc... I remember Bill Gates announced his high secured Windows in 2001, now we're in 2007 we still have with the same GodDamn Virus... Here they are: fastopen.exe printer.exe shell.exe spoolvs.exe findfst.exe tmp??.exe xxxtemp.exe wowfx.dll << this one is tricky to remove, run Windows in Safe mode, put a Folder/File there with the same name to block it. and lots more you name them... Microsoft Anti Virus program should not ask the user if they want to run or not runing the program in question. I think MS should have a signature to verify their own components. Every where I go, I heard people complained about being sick of Virus. This is unproductive for society and for Microsoft as well for not designing the OS correctly. Yup! Shame on Microsoft, because you provided many holes (10 places at least) for the intruders to place their Virus. You should watch those holes and do not allow any one to plug in anything while on the internet. I am sure the Virus writers can screw Vista as well, I know you a better file protection but they Virus writers will find a way to intrude it. Why? because Windows is a centralized system unlike Unix. Oh by the way, Wake up America, your enemies didn't hate your Freedom, they hate your Interference corrupting their Kingdom (Said Osama BinLadin, at least he is being Honest, unlike your president making things up endlessly...) Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101273
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    - Application sample for UVC extension units Dear all, I found it is hard to complete the sample application for UVC extension units that is described in "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms803115.aspx". If there is someone had done it, could you please help me? Much thanks! -- Grap Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101272
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    - How to use make a UMA frame buffer mapping from kernel to user mod Hi, I'm trying to implement a method to map a reserved virtual space (created by MmAllocateMappingAddress and MmMapLockedPagesWithReservedMapping) from kernel to user mode process. From the DDK description for VideoPortMapMemory, it seems we can do UMA (universal memory architecture) frame buffer mapping as suggested in the comments. The steps are: 1. Call InitializeObjectAttributes to get object attributes; 2. Call ZwOpenSection to get the handle of the section object; 3. Call ZwmapViewOfSection to get the virtual address of the view; My question is how to set up the relation between the reserved virtual space and the section view, that's to say, how to find a section object to represent the reserved virtual space? Any expert can help to give a hint? Thanks Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101269
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    - Virtual Desktops, like in *nix with Xserver Hello, I am sure you know about Virtual Desktops. UNIX had them for about 20 years. There are some implementations for Windows too, even a Microsoft one, but for some reason they all suck. The primary reason is that they provide only an emulation of the real stuff -- basically they minimize one set of applications in one desktop, one set in another and so on -- they aren't real Virtual Desktops. The best implementation so far seems to be Virtual Dimension, but it still sucks, mainly because there are application that make hacks in the GUI, ignoring any recommendation. The main issue, is that all this are emulations -- Windows doesn't have the capability for Virtual Desktops. That is why I have thought of implementing it via a driver! I am not sure what the best way is -- I need to make it hardware independent -- that is -- it should not matter what video card you use. I think I should implement a filter driver somehow, but still don't know what exactly it should do -- I am asking here for suggestions. Thanks in advance. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101245
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    - Find reg key name by handle. Hello, Could please somebody say if there, in Windows API, is a function to get the registry key name by its open handle (HKey)? I want to get it after successful hK = SetupDiOpenDevRegKey(DeviceInfoSet, DeviceInfoData, ...) (probably I overlooked something, or there is a better way? Google didn't help me.) Thanks. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101243
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    - USB Host Controller and USS Hub Hi All, I am a windows driver developer working on USB. I have few questions on USB. 1.Role of Host Controller driver/hw and Root Hub driver/hw in enumerating a newly connected usb device. 2.How does usbhub.sys know the device connected to roothub? Does Host controller hw/driver informs it? 3.Is there any difference in device detection when connected to the root hub port and the externel hub port(usb hub connected to the root hub). I suppose same driver is loaded for the root hub as well as external hub. 4.Does USB Host Controller use any ISR for detecting the device connected to the root hub? If so what about the device connected to the external hub. 5.Will (Host controller? or Hub?)keep polling by itself on all the visible ports for the device arrival? If you know, where all this information regarding the Host Controller and Hub exists, please give the references to me. Exact sequence of events happening, i.e device detection, address assignment and pdo creation by the bus driver(usbhub.sys) and polling mechanism. Thanks in advance, Vivek. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101241
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    - d Drive full with system restores I am in need of urget help before my PC dies. I have a Presario 56500NX with partitioned drives. All of my programs and files are saved on C drive. C drive capacity is 144GB, free space is 124GB with 86% free space. Drive D is a totally different story! Capacity 5.14GB Free space is 982MB with only 18% free space. I researched it, and on both drives did "disk cleanups", "file compressions", uninstalled programs no longer used, defraged both drives, deleted all "system restores" with exception of current date. I copied my 1 system restore to disks. Can I now go in and delete all the files on D drive. HP support advised me to un-install my OS and reinstall. Will that work??? I really don't want to hose my PC...I use my PC to work from home. I am desperate for help!! :>( Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101239
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    - MmProbeAndLockPages for user buffer pointer I have some doubts on mapping user pointers in the kernel - Lets say I have to have a user pointer passed within a struct as input to deviceiocontrol. I need to read stuff from this user pointer location. So within the driver dispatch handler I do the foll: mdl = IoAllocateMdl(userBuf, userBufLen, FALSE, TRUE, NULL); // Probe and lock within a try except loop MmProbeAndLockPages(mdl, UserMode, IoReadAccess); ASSUMING I never send the userBuf down to any other lower driver, dpc or completion routines - can I read from userBuf pointer directly within the dispatch handler ? .. Or do I still have to call MmGetSystemAddressForMdlSafe and only access the returned virtual address ? I guess I am not entirely certain if the userBuf virtual address is guaranteed to be valid with just doing a ProbeAndLock. Is there any way this virtual address could become invalid ? Also - can the contents of this userBuf be modified (say by another "bad" thread in the calling process) while this userBuf is locked for read in such a manner ? TIA --ks Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101233
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    - BREAK_RESERVATION returning STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST Would anyone know why IOCTL_STORAGE_BREAK_RESERVATION would return STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST ? This is issued using IoCallDriver() in my driver, the request originates from the MS cluster service I believe. I've checked the values in 'Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer' as per the STORAGE_BREAK_RESERVATION_REQUEST structure, they seem correct. If I issue the exact same IOCTL synchronously to the same LUN / device from within my driver it completes without any error. Anyone got any ideas, suggestions or clues ? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101232
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    - Retrieve USB_DEVICE_DESCRIPTOR only once from USB-device Hi, I try to validate my USB-device by checking its descriptor entries. Thus I added the following code to the IRP_MN_START_DEVICE routine: UsbBuildGetDescriptorRequest(...); IoBuildDeviceIoControlRequest(IOCTL_INTERNAL_USB_SUBMIT_URB,...); This works so far, BUT analyzing the USB-transfers after plugging in the device I get the following USB-stream: 1. SetAddress() 2. GetDescriptor(Device) 3. GetDescriptor(Configuration) ... Now my Driver starts and I get another GetDescriptor(Device). Is it somehow possible to get the USB-descriptors from the lower USB-Bus driver without resending a GetDescriptor-request to the USB-device? Or is it some odd behavior of the Host-Controll-Driver? Thank you for your help Emanuel Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101231
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    - possible bug in e100bex ndis DDK 6000 sample ? The function NICReturnRFD(Adapter, pMpRfd) pulls a HW RFD corresponding to pMpRfd from the linked list and adds it to the tail. While sofware links will be ok, the HW RFDs link will be broken because, pHwRfd->RfdCbHeader.CbStatus = 0; pHwRfd->RfdActualCount = 0; pHwRfd->RfdCbHeader.CbCommand = (RFD_EL_BIT); pHwRfd->RfdCbHeader.CbLinkPointer = DRIVER_NULL; AND // Link it onto the end of the chain dynamically pHwRfd = pLastMpRfd->HwRfd; pHwRfd->RfdCbHeader.CbLinkPointer = pMpRfd->HwRfdPhys; pHwRfd->RfdCbHeader.CbCommand = 0; WILL only fix the CURRENT and NEXT links and NOT the PREVIOUS HW RFD link. There should be a way to fix the previous HW RFD link pointer also. something like pPREV_RFD->RfdCbHeader.CbLinkPointer = PENULTIMATE_TAIL- >RFD_PA This code luckily works as long as pMpRfd in NICReturnRFD(Adapter, pMpRfd) is the HEAD ENTRY. In MpHandleRecvInterrupt ( ... ) it was a lucky case and in MPReturnNetBufferLists(...) and a couple of other places it looks like a BUG. Can some one clarify? I have attempted a pictorial description of the bug hw_rfd1 -> hw_rfd2 -> hw_rfd3 will become 2 sets hw_rfd1 -> hw_rfd2 AND a hanging hw_rfd3 -> hw_rfd2 !! because of bad linking of pHwRfd->RfdCbHeader.CbLinkPointer thx ugk Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101225
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    - How to make a deviceobject active? I am writing two deviceobjects, one in in PNP stack and it will be active after MN_START_DEVICE. How about the other deviceobject which is not in PNP but in the same driver? Does CreateFiile require deviceobject started in order to get handler or not? Thanks in advance, Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101222
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    - Virtual Cdrom Driver Port to Vista Dear all, I have a Virtual Cdrom Driver, it can emulate an ISO file on network drive as a Cdrom.It works well on Win2k/WinXp/Win2003. I need to port it to Windows Vista, but it can't work well. In this driver, I use DO_DIRECT_IO as I/O flags, use MmGetSystemAddressForMdl( Irp->MdlAddress) to get current Mdl Address, and use ZwReadFile to read data from Virtual Cdrom. I also use MmGetMdlByteCount(Irp->MdlAddress) to get the length of system assigned buffer for Mdl. On Win2k/Xp/2003, ZwReadFile can be executed normally. For the first 3 executed times for ZwReadFile, the length of Mdl buffer is 2k, from the 4th time of executed ZwReadFile, the length of Mdl buffer is 4k. But on Vista, ZwReadFile can be only executed 3 times, the length of Mdl buffer is also 2k for these 3 times. For the 4th executed times of ZwReadFile, the Mdl buffer is 32k, ZwReadFile is blocked and can't be executed anymore. Also the driver is blocked. Can anyone give me a hint for this issue? Any help will be appreciated! Brs, David Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101221
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    - a help for nand flash driver Hello everyone: Recently, I prepared for designing a nand flash driver ,using Samsung products. So who can give me some advise for me . I am so appreciate your help. best regarding . Yori Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101220
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    - Microsoft audio miniport driver We have developed a driver using the microsoft miniport. A probem we have is that either the miniport or the wave system stalls when other applications start up or windows are max/min ed on the screen. Is there some way around this problem? -- lee quodlibet programmer Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101218
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    - vista driver update I am working on windows device driver for 1394 for 32-bit Vista. I found it strange that I cannot update my already-installed unsigned driver after I made changes to driver code and recompiled. I was able to install driver first time. But updating driver is the problem. It updates the driver only after I changed the inf file date and version. For my testing this is really cumbursome. Everytime I compile the driver after minor change, I cannot reinstall the driver. I have to change inf file also with some other version number. Is this necessary? Any workaround for my driver testing. I didnot have problem with windows XP wherein we can do "have disk" and overwrite the driver binary. I want to replace driver binary with new driver binary for testing. Other information about driver can remain same. Is there any simple way to do this? I wish the driver installtion process be mature enough/simple enough that it wont change just for every version of OS. Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101203
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    - Windows Vista SP1 RC symbols Are Windows Vista SP1 RC (6001.17052.071129-2315) symbols available? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101202
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    - kmdf 1394 : 'pIsochAttachBuffers->pIsochDescriptor' is always 0 By attaching buffers for isochronous transfer with 1394 kmdf sample driver: the function --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IsochAttachBuffers( hWnd, szDeviceName, &isochAttachBuffers, TRUE, TRUE ); --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- in isochapi.c (:\WINDDK\6000\src\1394\dll\1394api\) from 1394api.dll will be called. These function calls -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DeviceIoControl( hDevice, IOCTL_ISOCH_ATTACH_BUFFERS, pIsochAttachBuffers, ulBufferSize, pIsochAttachBuffers, ulBufferSize, &dwBytesRet, &overLapped); -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( These I/O request will be processed by calling t1394_IsochAttachBuffers in isochapi.c (\WINDDK\6000\src\kmdf\1394\driver\isochapi.c) ). After all, the IsochAttachBuffers function from 1394api.dll do the following: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- if (pIsochAttachBuffers) { TRACE(TL_TRACE, (hWnd, "pIsochDescriptor = 0x%x\r\n", pIsochAttachBuffers->pIsochDescriptor)); } -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think, in this way, the user knows the value of pIsochDescriptor to detach buffers. My problem is: the value of 'pIsochAttachBuffers->pIsochDescriptor' does not change after calling DeviceIoControl function, so the value is always 0x0. I see on DebugView that the kernel sets the 'pIsochDescriptor', but as soon as it leaves the 't1394_IsochAttachBuffers' function, it gets lost. How can I make possible to get the pIsochDescriptor information from kernel? Or did I miss something? Thanks in advance, min Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101201
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    - repairing registry I have a situation where the registry was corrupted by an incomplete installation of a driver. Last Known good configuruation and safe mode did not work, the crash persists. I notice that there are several control sets. Is there a way to try other control sets besides last known good? If not, is there a way to edit the registry in recovery mode? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101200
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    - Device Manager - Disable->Enable = (Code 39) I have a SCSI MiniPort that was working fine on WinXP SP2 although when I updated SP2 with the latest critical patches I started seeing this problem. In the device manager I can see my SCSI Controller and one disk which is hanging off it. If I disable the SCSI controller in device manager the disk goes away as expected. Although if I re-enable the SCSI adapter the disk returns but with a bang and Code 39. (Rebooting the system once in this state resolves the problem. Also rebooting in between the disable and enable works around the issue. Tracing the driver its running fine. No errors.) I ran across a couple kb article which looks like an exact match although it only seems to apply to CD/DVDs. And there workarounds don't match up for a disk device. Has anyone encountered this and do you know of solutions / workarounds? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101199
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    - WDK version number programatically For debugging and maintenance, I like to add a print statement in my driver that shows the WDK version used for compiling the driver like "This driver was compiled with WDK version 6000". How can I do this? (This is invoked through a special debug_ioctl and as such not seen in normal operations). Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101198
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    - Device Manager - Disable->Enable = (Code 39) I have a SCSI MiniPort that was working fine on WinXP SP2 although when I updated SP2 with the latest critical patches I started seeing this problem. In the device manager I can see my SCSI Controller and one disk which is hanging off it. If I disable the SCSI controller in device manager the disk goes away as expected. Although if I re-enable the SCSI adapter the disk returns but with a bang and Code 39. (Rebooting the system once in this state resolves the problem. Also rebooting in between the disable and enable works around the issue. Tracing the driver its running fine. No errors.) I ran across a couple kb article which looks like an exact match although it only seems to apply to CD/DVDs. And there workarounds don't match up for a disk device. Has anyone encountered this and do you know of solutions / workarounds? Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101196
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    - Bitmap printer driver on XP I try to adapt Bitmap sample (from DDK) to save in JPEG or other formats, all pages printed. I'ts works well when all pages have the same orientation (all pages in portrait, or all pages in landscape). But when I try to print mixed pages from Word or other software, I get only the last one. Example : 1st page is in Portrait 2nd page is in Landscape 3th page is in Portrait I get only the page #3. In debug mode, i see the OEMSendpage is never called in these case. Have you an idea of my problem ? Thanks Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101191
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    - Virtual Multiort serial Adapters Hello All, Thanks for all the inputs you have given me. I am writing a driver for virtual multiport serial adapter(windows XP,2000). I have created a virtual bus driver ( Bus FDO). I can create the multiple virtual ports also (Port PDOs). Later I can add the same number of Port FDO s as my PDO s, to create COM interface to my applications. Now I have a Multiple virtual COM interface. But the exact requirement of my project is to create the ports only when instructed by an application above. I think I can delay the making of FDO (so that there is no COM interface). But since the PDO s are present(which were installed when bus driver was inserted.). It shows in the device manager as unknown device. I dont want this to happen. Is there any way I could dynamically install Port PDO s(not along with Bus driver), when i get signal from application. More specifically "CAN A BUS DRIVER, DYNAMICALLY ENUMERATE ITS PORTS (NOT DEVICES CONNECTED TO ITS PORTS)". or the only way I have is to insert another bus driver when i want another port. Looking forward for you response Thanks in advance, Subhash Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101188
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    - Dose UsbVideo.sys class driver support MPEG2 TS payload? dose microsoft's video class device driver support MPEG2 TS Payload? if not, how can i extend it to support MPEG2 TS ? -- -------------------------------------------- William Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101184
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    - About KSPIN format Hi, I am doing a USB Avstream Device Driver, I wanted to stream MPEG2 TS data through USB to be played on PC using directshow. I am using a pin centric approach in the avstream, my question is, how do i let the upper layer graph builder knows about the format of the upcoming data format (eg. MPEG2 TS) .... i could do it in onSetDataFormat() and IntersectHandler() in the Pin class right?? How do i do it? I am quite new to this, any cautions on TS streams also greatly appreciated. Is there any sample in the DDK that show this ? Thanks -- -------------------------------------------- William Tag: Installing printer driver and port monitor on vista Tag: 101179

Hi

What's the best way to install a printer driver and port monitor on
vista?

I've looked at the Driver Install Framework, but it doesn't seems to
be able to install my "virtual device".

I have also tried to create a custom install application with
AddPrinterDriver, AddPrinter and AddMonitor. This works fine on XP,
but when run from a msi-package these functions fails with access
denied on vista.

I tried to set level=requireAdministrator in the manifest, but it
doesn't seem to be enugh. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Tobias

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