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    - Network adapters immediately re-detected/installed after uninstall Can anyone explain why, when uninstalling a network adapter class device, the OS immediately reinstalls it. Sometimes even while the uninstall is still in progress? Or can anyone confirm that this is actually a bug in Vista? It doesn't appear to happen with any other device class - just network adapters. Uninstalling any other class makes it's instance disappear from Device Manager. With network adapters though, it looks like there is a PnP refresh and it re-detects the hardware. Thanks Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91575
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    - Can't attach buffer into resource for 1394 I am using two PCs, one Transmits and other receives. On transmiting side, I have BW allocated, channel 3 allocated, resource allocated, but I failed to attach buffers when i use default params of win1394.exe of DDK sample. What's different between the MaxBytesPerFrame of allocating resource and that of attaching buffers??? Are they necessarily the same? Could anyone give me one set of parameters used for successfully transmiting and receiving Isoch data..I want to know BW used, channel used, number of buffers, number of Isoch descriptors used, Max. Packet size, speed, Buffer size. I feel I am making mistake in giving param values. Alan Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91570
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    - Job at startup in Silicon Valley for Device Driver Software Engineer candidate!! Senior Applications Engineer - Embedded Software I represent a very sharp company that has been around for a few years and they are hiring local talent for this company. The leaders of this company have had successes in startups before and they and the VC's see this as being another successful venture. The company was founded in October, 2003 with the goal of building a wireless technology company offering semiconductor solutions for the wireless broadband market. Since that time they have established a leadership position in the WiMAX market including holding a position in the WiMAX Forum, one of only seven companies worldwide to do so. Job Overview: They are currently seeking an experienced and talented APPLICATION ENGINEER with specific DEVICE DRIVER development, embedded software and BSP development to provide engineering expertise for the Win XP, Win CE, VxWorks, specifically for their complete line of WiMAX products. They need an Applications Engineer for real-time embedded wireless systems. You will provide primarily pre-sales and potentially some post-sales technical marketing support for the development and implementation of customer applications dealing with embedded wireless systems (there is travel and the amount of travel varies). You will deliver technical presentations regarding all aspects of company products. Assist the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and preparing detailed product specifications. Implements detailed customer installation requirements. Provide follow-up support in disseminating technical information on specific applications to service personnel, company sales representatives, and customer's employees. Your key responsibilities will involve the support and integration of the products into various platforms and product lines, with your primary focus being in the area of embedded software in the wireless / mobile phones / PDA products. You will be responsible for support of Device Drivers in Windows CE, Windows XP, Linux and other embedded operating system environments and you will serve as the primary customer technical interface and, therefore, must have strong communications skills. We need this person to be a VERY strong communicator and problem solver, as you will regularly be required to identify, debug and resolve driver issues on customer platforms, AND to work closely with the engineering and application solutions teams ( In-House teams) to identify/understand issues and drive customer problems to closure. Requirements MSEE or MSCS with 6+ years exp. or BSEE or BSCS with 8-15 years exp. =B7 6 plus years experience developing wireless and networking products. =B7 Experience in software development in 802.11, 802.16 802.16e or other wireless products. =B7 Experience in Networking standards and stacks. =B7 Proficient in C/C++ with product development experience. =B7 Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS) such as VxWorks. =B7 Experience with Device driver development for either Windows. =B7 Adept at using embedded software development tools. =B7 Conduct design/code reviews internally & with customers. =B7 System-level knowledge of wireless networking. =B7 Kernel, OS, Embedded software, BSP development =B7 Ability to develop test routines in C/C++/Perl/Python or Assembly to debug and test wireless systems. Please apply if you are a local candidate to Maryellen O'Connell directly. maryelleno@volt.com or call me to discuss 415-298-1926 Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91561
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    - Binplace - how to use? I've read http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791451.aspx , but what it suggests just doesn't seem to work as expected. Short summary of things: I've installed WDK 6000.16384. I've got the following directory setup: d:\full\ (empty) d:\mini\ (empty) d:\InfinitySnapshot\ , contains Infinity_O.exe and Infinity_O.pdb In the directory I run binplace from, I've got a file 'placefil.txt', which has the following contents: --- Infinity_O.exe retail --- If I run binplace as follows, I get the following results: binplace -v -a -x -r d:\full -s d:\mini -p ./placefil.txt d:\InfinitySnapshot\Infinity_O.exe BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (-a) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (-x) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (-r) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (d:\full) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (-s) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (d:\mini) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (d:\mini) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (-p) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (./placefil.txt) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (./placefil.txt) BINPLACE : warning GNA0293: Not a response file (d:\InfinitySnapshot\Infinity_O.exe) BINPLACE : warning BNP0000: Looking at file Infinity_O.exe BINPLACE : warning BNP0000: place d:\InfinitySnapshot\Infinity_O.exe in d:\full\.\Infinity_O.exe BINPLACE : warning GNA0127: Command line finished After this is done, d:\full\Infinity_O.exe exists, and is the same size in KB as the copy d:\InfinitySnapshot . There is no pdb file here. Under d:\mini, there's 2 directories created, d:\mini\retail\exe However, no files are placed under d:\mini What I want is a stripped .pdb, containing only the public symbols (line #s). Infinity_O.exe and .pdb were created with VS.NET 2003, and I know that the .pdb is valid. Any tips for how to achieve this? Thanks. Nathan Mates -- <*> Nathan Mates - personal webpage http://www.visi.com/~nathan/ # Programmer at Pandemic Studios -- http://www.pandemicstudios.com/ # NOT speaking for Pandemic Studios. "Care not what the neighbors # think. What are the facts, and to how many decimal places?" -R.A. Heinlein Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91556
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    - Where should I post questions for the Device Simulation Framework Hi, is there a good place to post questions regarding the Device Simulation Framework (USB device sim) ? Not able to use the SoftUSBEndPointEvents events in managed code... Thks in advance. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91555
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    - Coinstaller question Hi all, I have the following fragment in my inf file: [DestinationDirs] MyCoInstaller.CopyFiles = 11 [MyModelSection] "Printer Name" = MY_DRV,MY_PNP [MY_DRV] CopyFiles = ... DriverFile = ... ConfigFile = ... DataFile = ... HelpFile = ... [MY_DRV.CoInstallers] AddReg = MyCoInstaller.AddReg CopyFiles = MyCoInstaller.CopyFiles [MyCoInstaller.AddReg] HKR,,CoInstallers32,0x10000,"mycoinst.dll,MyEntryPoint" [MyCoInstaller.CopyFiles] mycoinst.dll,,,0x10 [SourceDisksFiles] mycoinst.dll = 1,, mycoinst.dll is in the root of the driver package. After the installation the following appears in the setupapi.dev: ndv:Installing interfaces... dvi:{DIF_INSTALLINTERFACES} 15:40:37.368 !!!dvi: Loading module 'C:\Windows\system32\mycoinst.dll' failed. !!!dvi: Error 126: The specified module could not be found. !!!dvi: Error 126 loading CoInstaller(mycoinst.dll,MyEntryPoint) !!!dvi: Error 126: The specified module could not be found. dvi: No CoInstallers found I expected to have the coinstaller mycoinst.dll in Windows\system32 because of the CopyFiles in the CoInstallers section but it is obvious that it was not there. If I add the MyCoInstaller.CopyFiles in the [MY_DRV] section like this: [MY_DRV] CopyFiles = MyCoInstaller.CopyFiles, ... ... everything is fine. Am I missing something? Thanks Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91553
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    - Filesystem overlay (poor mans unionfs) Hi there. For a legacy application that expects all its customization (.dlls, mostly) in its working directory and because I need to constantly switch projects (which involves "copy the working directory, replace it with another one and restart") I searched for a kind of unionfs[1] for windows, which would allow me to create a logical view on the application directory which includes external directories as neccessary. Sample: C:\MyApp\Bin\ C:\MyApp\Projects\Foo\ I'd like to map all file requests that would fail for the Bin to check another directory again. Being new to this stuff (and doing it out of lazyness, since the process described above sucks) I'd love to hear that this barely involves dispatching IRP_MJ_CREATE? My current idea would be to deploy a minifilter which does the following steps in the PreCreate event: - Check if this request wants a file inside of my Bin directory., else ignore the request - Check if the request is readonly (no create file, no append), else ignore the request - Check if the requested file exists (ZwFileOpen?) and - ignore the request if the file exists - redirect the request to the overlay directory otherwise (setting the filenameinfo and marking the request as dirty) Since I'm bloody new here: Can anyone comment on obvious mistakes? Is this too hard for a beginner's (talking about drivers here) task? Thanks in advance, Ben Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91547
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    - print driver default settings strategy in 2003 server and xp Hi, in a point and print relationship between printQ on 2003 server and xp client, I set up "advanced / printings default" in the print driver option on the server. When the customer install (with point and print method)the printer on the XP, the default setting in the driver match the printQ configuratin of the server. Everything seems ok I use this method for setting up a global print strategy (like force duplex and black and white printing by default).But when the user changes default printing options locally, system keeps this setting as default. I'm looking for a way to allow the user changes setting "on the fly" when printing, but forbid permanent local settings change. In other words, when user opens its application again for printing, default printings option should match the server one. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards HervÃ© Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91545
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    - WDF supplied functions send reset packet twice through USB Hi All. I am using wdf to make a usb dfu driver. Trying to reset USB device through the call of WdfUsbTargetDeviceResetPortSynchronously or WdfUsbTargetDeviceCyclePortSynchronously I see in the trace that both of them reset device twice. That behavior prevents dfu from proper work. Is it made intentionally? Or am I wrong? How to reset device just single time using wdf? -- Thanks, Stanislav. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91544
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    - Vista Printer Drivers Can anyone tell me when the Lexmark Vista drivers will be released namely X8350 any help would be good as I cannot use my printer with vista Mal Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91542
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    - SDDL string in NdisRegisterDeviceEx() Hi all, further: Running with an SDDL string of "D:P(A;;GA;;;SY)(A;;GA;;;BA) (A;;GRGW;;;BU)(A;;GRGW;;;WD)" and calling NdisRegisterDeviceEx() retruns STATUS_SUCESS, In WinObj I can see the device, and its security is set to: System, Administrators and Everyone: Delete and Query State are checked in the Allow column, everything else is unchecked. Restricted, Query State is checked in the Allow collumn, everything else is unchecked. What ever I set the SDDL to this doesnt change, which is odd. With the result that I cannot open the symbolic link from user land. (My dispatch handler is _not_ getting hit) This is a Miniport ontop of a multifunction USB bus driver (ours). Is there any reason why changing the SDDL doesnt work? Is there any kind of inherited security from the lower bus? Thanks in advance, Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91535
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    - bulkusb sample with DTM test Hello, I am new to DTM test. I use Vista DDK's bulkusb sample to transfer MP3 files between PC and Handset. The Handset just has a bulk-in and a bulk-out pipe, and our purpose is just to transfer MP3 files. It works on Vista. Now I use DTM to test it, the .inf shows it belongs to USB class (just like bulkusb.inf). I use usb cable connect handset and pc. And I choose WDK\ConfigureUSBController in MCU Ploicy tab to start DTM test. And then I create a submission(x86 Vista) to run test items(it shows 7 items on DTM Studio) and always failed immediately after I schedule these jobs. All I want to ask are: If the .inf must has a CAT file first and I must add a CatalogFile=XXXX.cat and can not give it a blank CAT file? If I should make a CAT file first and then can do other test items, or they will all fail? Should it must connect through a usb 2.0 HUB? I had test HCT before, it seems simpler than DTM. I am not sure about DTM whether something important that I must to do and I forget to do. Please help me. Thanks. Ricky Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91533
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    - what API should i use for remote port/device blocker? hi, i am developing a remote port/device blocker. i am planning to use SetupAPI for blocking devices. will it be the best way or are there any better APIs for this purpose? thanks Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91531
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    - Poor DMA read rate I have a PCI device (32-bit/66MHz) that has a really poor DMA read rate (host to device) that is somewhat decent in one machine (59MB/s) but is really poor in another machine (4MB/s). The performance in the second machine is equivalent to directly reading memory from the host 4-bytes at a time. The DMA write rate (device to host), however, is roughly the same in both machines and close to the theoretical (262MB/s). The device acts as the master for both reads and writes. I have a limited knowledge of the details of the PCI bus. Does this look like an issue with the PCI bridges getting configured differently, resulting in the read transactions being terminated prematurely? I have access to a PCI analyzer and will be setting that up as soon as I have access to the machines again, but I was wondering if this looks like something obvious to someone more knowledgeable about the PCI bus. Also, are there any parameters that can be tweaked to improve the read DMA rate overall? I realize that this is probably highly dependent on the DMA engine on the device itself. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91529
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    - Ethernet Controller LCS 8036 TX-R Driver for Wndows98 wanted Hello Windows friends, I have an old LAN card for use with DSL connection on an old PC. Does anybody know a driver for it ? the manufacturer has ceased support. thanks for any help J. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91525
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    - Help!! Out of the Pot and into the Driver Fire I need some help. I have been thrown in front of a bus at work. We are having trouble fully testing our network enabled apps for their resilience to the effect of lag and dropped packets and I got tagged as the lucky developer to find a solution. As usual, we can't buy anything; but, in this case I cant find anything that would work anyway. I need to create a small app that will allow me to catch UDP/TCP packets going up and down the stack and hold them for a resizeable amount of time to "fake" lag for our app. I also need to be able to throw out packets based on some known frequency and unknown (psuedo-random). Of course, None of us here are Windows driver developers, but from the research that I've done, it looks like I will need to make a Intermediate NDIS driver and/or Filter driver. I am pretty sure I can't do this project in VS 2005, and I need the WDK....Right? Are there any other things that I will need before I install the WDK? I have been studying the MSDN literature on NDIS intermediate/filter drivers, but I am not real sure where to go next. Thanks a billion for any help. Sorry such a newb. .NETMystified Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91515
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    - Virtual disk problem I'm trying to port my virtual disk driver to Windows Server 2003 SP1 running on Virtual Server 2005 x64. I create symbolic link using DefineDosDevice. And I get "X:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function." every time I try to access created drive. My driver gets only IRP_MJ_CREATE. Symbolic link is correct: x: --> \Device\Mydevice. In CreateClose routine: irp.Status = STATUS_SUCCESS; irp.Information = FILE_OPENED ; IoCompleteRequest(irp, IO_NO_INCREMENT); return STATUS_SUCCESS; Seems to be OK. I'v tried to call IoCreateSymbolicLink. Same promblem. Whats wrong? Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91513
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    - Communication with driver Hi, I'm currently developing a user mode application that creates a rather big linked list which contains lots of structures that may contain linked lists theirselves. Now, how can I transfer this rather complex linked list into kernel mode? What's the best approach? Thanks a lot, Peter Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91508
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    - HP lagging in providing printer drivers for Vista my HP1012 laser printer does not work in Vista. I have posted asking for help elsewhere ... I am interested in reading opinions on why HP would be so slow in having printer driver support for printers on Vista. - the 1012 is no longer sold by HP but it is still relatively new. assuming HP is providing Vista support for the printers it sells, will it be difficult for HP to clone one of their working drivers to work with the 1012? - in general are printer drivers harder to write in Vista than XP? - has HP simply become a lame company that has little regard for its legacy customers? -Steve Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91507
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    - How to properly support an interface in an upper filter driver ? I am an upper filter driver and set & Enable an interface (IoRegisterDeviceInterface & IoSetDeviceInterfaceState() . Depending what stack this filter is on , the stacks below it will fail IRP_MJ_CREATE , some will succeed it. Some stacks depend on the IRP_MJ_CREATE , if filter completes with success , they are not happy. If the IRP_MJ_CREATE fails , user mode apps cannot access my interface, and value of filter. What is the proper method for supporting this ? Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91506
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    - How do I clean up the registry Hi, When I run ndistest, 1c_faulthandling test modifies the registry to simulate various error conditions (causing scenarios). During one of the test-runs, system crashed in 1c_faulthandling. Now I am unable to load the driver because of some tweaking done by 1c_faulthandling. Question is: How do I restore the registry/fix this problem? Regards, -Praveen Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91501
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    - USB Selective suspend support by Vista? Our device is a usb 1.1 low speed device with remote wake up capability. and it runs with the Vista in-box hid driver. it also passed USBCV suspend/remote wake up test, Well, after choosing maximum power saving policy in the Vista, we still can not obeserve the driver would send out the "set feature" command to enable the remote wake up function in our device. The deivce keep working on D0, and was not able to go into a power saving state. ""========= Per the ..http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms793200.aspx In Microsoft Windows XP and later operating systems, the USB core stack supports a modified version of the "selective suspend" feature that is described in revision 2.0 of the Universal Serial Bus Specification. The USB selective suspend feature allows the hub driver to suspend an individual port without affecting the operation of the other ports on the hub. Selective suspension of USB devices is especially useful in portable computers, since it helps conserve battery power. Many devices, such as finger readers and other kinds of biometric scanners, only require power intermittently. Suspending such devices selectively reduces power consumption. More importantly, as long as any USB device remains powered, it will prevent the system from entering deeper sleep states, such as C3. The Windows selective suspend behavior is different for devices operating in Windows XP and Windows Vista. ""========== Once the device keep working on D0, it would prevent the CPU enter C3, it would result in the whole system consume more power.. Does anyone knows 1. The in-box HID driver in Vista support seletive suspend feature? 2. If yes, what's the requirement for arming the command to the device? Thanks. -chueh8 Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91495
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    - Multiple MiniportMessageInterruptDPCs on the same CPU In the following scenario, does NDIS call one MiniportMessageInterruptDPC per MSI message or just one DPC call? 1. The driver uses two MSI-X messages. 2. MiniportMessageInterrupt always sets QueueDefaultInterruptDpc to TRUE and returns TRUE. 3. The device sends one MSI message and interrupts a CPU. This causes a DPC. 4. While the last DPC is either running or is scheduled to run, the device sends a different MSI message and happens to interrupt the same CPU. Is this always going to result in another DPC because the interrupt is due to a different MSI message? Thanks... Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91490
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    - 1394 Debugging - So Close - Need Help I've set up my host and target machines for 1394 debugging. I have the virtual 1394 device drivers installed on the host machine and am able to connect to the target machine to begin the debug session. Right after the target's 1394 host controller loads, the debugging connection is lost. When I check the target's hardware properties, the 1394 host controller is whacked. I've read the documentation that warns to disable the target 1394 host controller before debugging with the caution "Be careful not to accidently disable the 1394 net adapter instead". The problem is, when I disable the 1394 host controller on the target, the 1394 net adapter disappears from the listing and thereby not allowing a debug connect at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91488
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    - Widcomm bluetooth drivers Hello all Anyone had problems with Windows Vista and getting their in built Bluetooth device by Widcomm working. Cant find drivers to work with Windows Vista, everything else has installed without many tears being spilt. Dan UK Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91486
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    - IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THRU commands in limited user mode Hi, Currently I am using IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THRU commands in admin user mode, when logged in limited user mode I am not able to send IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THRU commands to an USB device. The reason is Create file will fail due to Generic_read/Generic_write which is not available in limited user modes, and IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THRU needs these options in DeviceIOControl. As I am working with USB Mass Storage device using usbstor.sys mass storage driver is there a method that would send same commands through USB end points or pipes. Also I found IOCTL_USB_USER_REQUEST which has USBUSER_PASS_THRU option but I could not locate any sample codes, i guess these are not documented. What I am trying to do is to send an vendor specfic command to an USB Mass Storage deivce. Thanks, JK Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91485
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    - machine hanging after reboot when enabling driver verifier When enabling the driver verifier and rebooting the machine (done automatically for some tests by DTM), the machine is hanging during the reboot. I can reproduce the problem also by doing the same thing manually (without DTM). I have Windbg attached and it seems the system is hanging at the very beginning: it seems the driver under test is not loaded yet, the last messages from windbg are "kernel debugger connection established", some stuff about symbol paths and "system uptime: not available" as last message. I'm only able to break into the debugger until after a very long time (more than 10 minutes). The strange thing is that I do not see the problem on all my test machines. I'm currently using 2 machines: the one which has the problem is a single-processor machine, the other one, which is a multi-processor machine, does not have the problem. Another difference between them is that the one with the problem has both XP and Vista installed on it while the other has only Vista installed. Both are 32-bit machines. Has anybody already seen this problem before or does anybody have suggestions to debug this problem? Thanks, Jeroen Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91476
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    - inf update Hi, I made a USB WDM driver. I am trying to make an update on my driver. Every time I use the update driver the system crash. And I can't find anything wrong. I have to physically remove first the old driver and reboot I was wondering if there is anything in INF to specify the removal and/or the replacement and/or reboot of the system. Thanks. DC Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91475
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    - Tcpip.sys bug: FTP Upload. MiniportHalt isnt called untill it has returned all the outstanding sends. So, set up an FTP upload, then do a safe remove. Result, underlying USB bus driver gets the query remove and retuend INVALID_DEVICE_STATE for the Ndis miniport driver writes, but the miniport drivers Halt routine doesnt get called and the device doesnt get unloaded, hanging the PnP manager with device manager showing the device stil present. (You can tell the PnP manager is hung because an inserted USB stick isnt recognised). Via an applet and an IOCTL interface, the Ndis driver can be told to stop, whereupon it cancels all its send packets with a status of NDIS_STATUS_MEDIA_DISCONNECT. After this has hapened the miniport halt function does get called. So, from looking at the DDK: The PnP Manager issues an IRP_MN_QUERY_STOP_DEVICE request. On receiving this IRP, NDIS calls the ProtocolPnPEvent function of all protocol drivers that are bound to the adapter. In this call, NDIS specifies an event code of NetEventQueryRemoveDevice. If a protocol driver fails the NetEventQueryRemoveDevice event by returning a failure code from ProtocolPnPEvent, the PnP Manager might ignore the failure and subsequently succeed the IRP_MN_QUERY_STOP_DEVICE request (but it looks like it doesnt) ... After all protocol drivers are unbound from the NIC, NDIS calls the miniport driver's MiniportHalt function. So, it looks like tcpip.sys is failing the NetEventQueryRemoveDevice because it still has outstanding sends with the Nic driver, but the Nic driver cant complete them till its Halt function is called. Chicken...egg...chicken...egg. This is on XP SP2. I wonder if its 'fixed in Vista', like selective suspend ; ) Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91474
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    - Does i/o read bytes perfomance counter includes paging operations(read page bytes)? sorry for off-topic thanks and regards Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91471
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    - Auto deletion of files in SDHC cards Hi all, We are developing SD high capacity(4GB) card driver in WinCE.We are able to write and read the files after detection.But when we eject and insert the card later,we found the files missing in the card.If we paste some files in the card using card reader and then use the card in WinCE,we are able to view the files all the times.We miss the files only when written under WinCE.Whatshll we do?Pls help....... Thanks, Praba. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91468
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    - devcon error : "the procedure entrypoint DeactivateActCtx could not be located in the kernel32.dll" devcon is giving error : "the procedure entrypoint DeactivateActCtx could not be located in the kernel32.dll" on w2k professional. could you please explain the reason and solution? thanks shoeb Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91467
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    - What build target to use for Windows XP 64? What build target should I use for Windows XP 64 in 3790.1830 DDK? What about WDK 6000? Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91451
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    - DIFx and virtual device drivers... I would like to use DIFx to install some virtual device drivers. Since these are virtual drivers I have to create the device instances manually. Is there a recommended way to do this with DIFx? DIFx appears to require a real device before it will create an instance. Is there a DIFx way to do this or should I use the SetupAPI and create the device? Robert Randall Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91445
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    - How user mode drivers handle client application crash? Hello, I write a user mode USB driver which serves overlapped ReadFile requests from the client application. There will be exceptions in the driver when the client application crashes(or is closed by the Task Manager). Is there any special requirment for the user mode driver to handle this situation? BTW, I'm a newbie to the driver development. I'm using Vista and WDK. Thanks! zxli Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91438
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    - Parallel Dispatching in KMDF drivers I have a PCI hardware with two communication channels. (A and B) Only DeviceIoControl() is used to communicate with this hardware, because there are In- and Outdata for each IRP. In NT4.0 driver I use the standard-queue for Type-A IOCTLs and a user-defined-queue for Type-B IOCTLs NTSTATUS MyDeviceControl(...) { ... switch(pIoStack->Parameters.DeviceIoControl.IoControlCode) { case IOCTL_MY_SIMPLE: // read some bits from hardware and complete IRP ... pIrp->IoStatus.Information=... pIrp->IoStatus.Status=... ntStatus=STATUS_SUCCESS; IoCompleteRequest(...) // no queue used break; case IOCTL_TYPE_A: ntStatus=STATUS_PENDING; IoMarkIrpPending(pIrp); IoStartPacket(...) // the default queue break; case IOCTL_TYPE_B: ntStatus=STATUS_PENDING; IoMarkIrpPending(pIrp); MyAlternateStartPacket(...) // my second queue break; ... } ... } -------------- Now I want to port my driver to KMDF. But I can define only one separate queue for Read, for Write and for IoControl. My Problem is, that I need two queues for IoControl like in my NT4.0 driver, because two User-Mode threads are communicating with my hardware (one thread with channel A, the other with channel B) Question 1: Is it possible in KMDF to return the IRP without using a queue (like IOCTL_MY_SIMPLE) Question 2: Can I direct my IRPs into different queues in KMDF? EvtIoDeviceControl is called for all types IOCTLs. (IOCTL_TYPE_A and for IOCTL_TYPE_B) Thanks Jacques Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91437
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    - Print Monitor Needs to Access Interactive Services I have a print monitor that is installed for a custom Postscript printer driver. This print monitor needs to display a screen asking the user to name a file and select some processing options during the call to LcmStartDocPort. It also invokes a COM object that display several interactive screens to process the file during the call to LcmEndDocPort. The printer driver and monitor installs and runs on OSes Win2K and up. It also installs on Vista, and it will properly interact with the user and process files as designed. However, on Vista the OS intercepts the dialog boxes and displays a dialog titled "Interactive Services Dialog Detection". The message is that "The program [my port monitor] may need information or permission to complete a task." When the user clicks OK, the dialogs are displayed. My questions: 1. How can I properly set permissions (programatically, during the installation) on the port monitor so that it can interact in the user session without the OS intercepting the dialog boxes? 2. Do these permissions need to be applied to the port monitor (a dll) or to the spooler that invokes it? Thanks, Mike Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91436
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    - How to support DRM in AVStream? Hi, I would like to implement support for DRM content in a AVStream based driver. The DDK only mentioned about how to declare support for a WaveCyclic or WavePCI miniport driver, and nothing about AVStream. Can anyone provide any info? Thanks KS Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91435
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    - How can I get certification stored in WinXPX64? Which API do I use and it makes me to get certification stored in "WinXPX64"? I tried to use CertOpenSystemStore() and CertEnumCertificatesInStore() APIs. Some certifications stored in local computer, but I sometimes get no certification. I don't know what the reason is. Whether do I need to use other APIs, not these or not? Do these APIs not work completely? Does somebody help me to solve this issue? I need you some suggesstion. Thanks. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91434
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    - Strange Monitor behaviour and debug messages on win2k3 Hi there, I have a question, it seems that when I print and exaclty afterwords attempt a XcvDataPort() on the Monitor that has recieved my print data I get error 170 (requested resource is in use). On the debugger it I saw that this module gets loaded "pcl5eres.dll" and someone prints this debug information: "Entering SimpleDocumentPropertiesinside DDPS returning sizeofEntering SimpleDocumentPropertiesEntering SimpleDocumentPropertiesinside DDPS returning sizeofEntering SimpleDocumentPropertiesEntering SimpleDocumentPropertiesinside DDPS returning sizeofEntering " What is it? Does anyone what this data means and why such a think could be happening. Thanks Adam Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91433
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    - Printer driver problem on Vista I have developed a printer driver that runs on Vista, for some reason when I print a lot of pages (more than 1000); The OS becomes unstable, and some of OS exes become corrupted! For example (task manager)!; And some of the folder security gets changed (you canâ??t access folders that you were allowed to access). And when you restart the OS it will not restart!!! I will have to reinstall VISTA again. Any suggestions of what the problem might be will help? Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91432
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    - save string functions at IRQL > PASSIVE_LEVEL? I'm porting a big old driver to KMDF. I use some strcat()/strcpy()/sprintf(), often for internal diagnostic messages. They are now deprecated, and the recommended kernel mode replacement RtlStringCch*() functions are bound to PASSIVE_LEVEL. So what is your meaning about the best solution: Leave everything as it is and disable compiler warnings ? Or write my own strcpy_s()/strcat_s()/sprintf_s() ? Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91417
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    - DIFx: .cab files Hi! Can DIFx handle driver packages with .cab files? like this: mydriverpackage.inf mydriverpackage.cat mydriverpackage.cab (includes all driver files...) -Nick Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91406
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    - register 32-bit dll in 64bit driver INF Hi, I'm trying to trigger registration of a 32-bit dll during a 64-bit driver installation. The following is an extract of the relevant parts in the INF. [XX_Device.ntamd64] ... CopyFiles=...,xx32.CopyList.ntamd64 ... RegisterDlls=xx.RegisterDlls.ntamd64 [DestinationDirs] ... xx32.CopyList.ntamd64 = 16425 ; %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64 [xx32.CopyList.ntamd64] xx123.dll,,,0x0100 [xx.RegisterDlls.ntamd64] ... 16425,,xx123.dll,1 After the inf installation, my 32-bit dll (xx123.dll) gets copied correctly to the SysWOW64 directory, but it the regsvr of the 32 bit DLL was not successful. Does anyone knows how to trigger the regsvr of the 32-bit dll correctly? Thanks KS Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91396
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    - Does Longhorn driver work for W2K3 or Vice Versa Hi, I'm porting my driver to Longhorn, it's a boot-loaded driver supporting W2K3 32bit, W2K3 x64 and W2K3 ia64. Now we need to support Longhorn on all 3 platforms. Since for W2K3 support, I've built 6 drivers (free/checked, x86/x64/ia64). If for Longhorn, I build another 6, that'll be a lot. My questions are: 1. If I use WDK to build a driver for Longhorn in WDK Longhorn build enviroment, could that driver run in W2K3 on same platform ? 2. As a boot-loaded driver, to support Longhorn x64, it needs a embedded signature in driver file. If I do so, could this driver run in W2K3 x64 ? Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91390
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    - DTM: Run WDK File Signature verification Library job task What is this test "Run WDK File Signature verification Library Job task" about?? I have this task running under almost any Job for "Unclassified" category driver and it failed under 4 jobs and succeed for 2 other jobs. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91388
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    - DTM client configuration - is Autologon required? I successfully installed all components of DTM. I then decided to run some tests on sound card drivers currently used by computer on which I installed DTM client (this PC is running Windows XP pro if it matters). All these drivers are signed by Microsoft, so I expected that all test should complete successfully. Was my expectation wrong? Because they all failed. Looking at the test errors I see this several times: ================================= Failed to Wait For Autologon Error Code 0 (The operation completed successfully) Resolution Waiting for autologon in session 0 failed. If you have tasks depending on that session to be present then those tasks will fail until someone logs on to the session. ====================================== Does it mean that PC where DTM client is installed should be configured for Autologon? If yes - what user name should I use? I noticed there is DTMLLUAdminUser created by DTM Client installation, but if this has to be used - what is the password for this account? Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91385
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    - WDK help collection registration Hi, I've installed WDK on one of my computers, and I would like to migrate the WDK documentation to another one, without installing WDK on it. How can I do that? Thanks Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91382
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    - VISTA Install Windows Drivers (Hardware-First Scenarios) I need to install drivers on VISTA and XP. I will provide a CD containing the drivers. As documented in the SDK and the WHDC site, I have added in my autorun.inf a new directive supported by VISTA, "hardwareid". This is my autorun.inf: [AutoRun] open=setup.exe [DeviceInstall] hardwareid= VID_413C&PID_5128, VID_413C&PID_5128&MI_00, VID_413C&PID_5128&MI_01, VID_413C&PID_5128&MI_02, VID_413C&PID_5128&MI_03, VID_413C&PID_5128&MI_04 DriverPath=\Drivers With VISTA, I am expecting the the "Found New Hardware Wizard" is stopped when I insert the CD containig the drivers, and launch my setup.exe that will preinstall the drivers (using the DIFx DPINST.exe) then give back the hand to the "Found New Hardware Wizard". But this is not the case. What is wrong with my autorun.inf. Olivier Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91379
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    - NDIS: ProtocolUnbindAdapter() gets called at IRQL DISPATCH_LEVEL on Vista I got a problem, where ProtocolUnbindAdapter() of my IM driver gets called at IRQL DISPATCH_LEVEL on Vista, consequently causing a bugcheck 0x7C with 0x14,0x02,0x00,0x00 parameters when calling NdisWaitEvent() to wait for NdisCloseAdapter() to complete asynchronously. I'd like to know, why this can happen (most likely it's my programming error, but still), if the documentation clearly states that ProtocolUnbindAdapter() is called at PASSIVE_LEVEL IRQL. Also, the Debugging Tools documentation must be updated probably, since it doesn't reflect 0x14 parameter in the 0x7C bugcheck documentation. Additionally, when I specifically enable "DbgPrint buffering" parameter in GFlags utility and reboot the system and it crashes with a full memory dump, WinDbg then displays nothing when issuing ! dbgprint command. The nt!kdprint* buffers are empty for some reason. Thanks. Tag: Mirror Driver Installation Tag: 91378

I need to install mirror driver with minimal user interaction during
application setup. WDK help mentions driver file destination folders. What
must I do to make system accept the driver and enlist it in device manager?
What action is required for uninstall?

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