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    - NDIS SendComplete- Please help! Hi, My NDIS miniport driver is always crashing under heavy load when SendComplete is being called. What does SendComplete do? NDIS called SendPackets() Within SendPackets, I call transmit which tries to post packets to the hardware. If I cant, I call SendComplete wth STATUS_PENDING and throw the pkt onto a queue, otherwise I call SendComplete with STATUS_SUCCESS. What am I missing here? Please help! Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76977
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    - SSL, Kernel, and NDIS Is there any way to implement SSL in the NDIS IM Driver? I think there is, but I'm not sure as to the first way to go about this. -Jay (patelj27b at gmail dot com) Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76971
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    - NDISProt and NdisMediumWan Problems I've extended the sample NDISProt driver to support NdisMediumWan devices. I can bind to the NdisWanIp device and issue OID queries to it. However, the driver is not receiving any data from the device and all send packets issues from a host app (via an IOCTL interface to the driver) fail. All that I did was change MediumArray[2] = {NdisMedium802_3, NdisMediumWan}. Is there something else that I need to do to support read/writes to NdisWanIp? Thanks! Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76970
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    - help install driver and help drivequery.exe Hello, when I run driverquery.exe ( windows xp ) I can see that my driver ( for usb ) is Manuel and stopped. How is it possible to change in Running ? thanks Vincent Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76968
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    - How does KeWaitForMultipleObjects() handle multiple signaled objects? Hello, If KeWaitForMultipleObjects() waits (with WaitAny) for multiple objects and they get signaled more or less at the same time. Does KeWaitForMultipleObjects() return for each signaled object with STATUS_WAIT_*? Or does KeWaitForMultipleObjects() return once and I have to read the state of each object? Thanks! -- h.wulff Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76953
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    - NDIS PassThru IM Driver Using SSL and Certificates Hey There, Does anyone out there have any idea where to begin with this? I need to write an NDIS PassThru IM Driver that will also work as a VPN and take a packet sent to a specific server, "http://xxx" and change it to go through "https://xxx" and use SSL encryption. Any ideas as to where to begin with this? I don't see any useful information in the DDK or through google. -Jay (patelj27b at gmail dot com) Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76949
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    - crash in directx when usb hid device is connected Hi all, I have developed a USB HID device based on the PIC16c745 - it works great, but there is one small problem. When it is plugged in, most directx apps (eg. games and dxdiag) crash inside of dinput.dll. Other than this, the devices works great, I can control it via the HID interfaces in the DDK without any problems. When the crash happens the backtrace looks like this: http://www.heenan.me.uk/vs.png Without this USB device that I have developed connected everything works fine. I'm using the latest available version of directx (Feb 2006) on XP Pro. Same version on Server 2000 does not show the problem. I initially posted this into the programmer.directx.input group (see http://tinyurl.com/z5zkb) but they suggested I post here instead. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Joseph Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76948
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    - question for secondary dump data callback Hello. I have problems with my bugcheck secondary callback (WinXP SP2). My callback is indeed called, but there are two issues: a) My callback is called only once, and I cannot see my information in the kernel crash dump. I believe that the DDK mentions that my callback should be called twice: once for buffer length and address acquisition, and then again for actually copying the data. My callback code, which was adapted from an archive, is shown below after this letter. b) In some cases, when I tried the .enumtag command, I got a listing of information (my GUID was not there). However, sometimes I got the following error: 1: kd> .enumtag Unable to start enumeration, HRESULT 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE, what does it mean here, and did I cause it?) Any ideas? thanks, Philip Lukidis bugcheck callback: // watch out, called at IRQL==HIGH_LEVEL VOID TestBugCheckSecondaryDumpDataCallback( IN KBUGCHECK_CALLBACK_REASON Reason, IN PKBUGCHECK_REASON_CALLBACK_RECORD Record, IN OUT PVOID ReasonSpecificData, IN ULONG ReasonSpecificDataLength ) { UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(Reason); UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(Record); PKBUGCHECK_SECONDARY_DUMP_DATA pData; pData = (PKBUGCHECK_SECONDARY_DUMP_DATA) ReasonSpecificData; if(pData && (ReasonSpecificDataLength==sizeof(KBUGCHECK_SECONDARY_DUMP_DATA))) { pData->Guid = TEST_CRASH_GUID; // this is for acquiring the address and buffer length if(pData->OutBuffer == NULL) { pData->OutBuffer = (PVOID)g_CRASH_STRING; pData->OutBufferLength = g_CrashLen; } // request to copy the data (we never get here, we're called only once!) if((pData->InBuffer == pData->OutBuffer) && pData->InBuffer) { if(g_CrashLen < pData->OutBufferLength) { RtlCopyMemory(pData->OutBuffer,g_CRASH_STRING,g_CrashLen); pData->OutBufferLength = g_CrashLen; } } } } Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76943
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    - Windows clipboard Hi, I wanted to know if the following is possible. When an application is copying some data to the clipboard, is it possible to hook into the clipboard so as to know the name of the source application that is copying the data to the clipboard. Also is it possible to get the name of the file from which the contents have been copied to the clipboard? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Vishal Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76942
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    - RAID Cluster MAP to Physical LBA relationship Does anyone know of any tools which display the current mapping between clusters and physical LBAâ??s on an XP Pro (SP2) NTFS (three drives) Stripe set and is there any method of changing this? Maybe a description of how NTFS is implemented across a RAID array? I have a video application simulated by writing a 100MB file and reading the file back. The file is written to 3x SCSI disks, striped and formatted using NTFS (default cluster size of 4KB). The system is a 3.6GHz Xeon with 3.25GB RAM. The simulation creates multiple files (keeps going until the volume is full) and for each 100MB file calculates the average write transfer rate and read transfer rate. Most of the time, the write transfer rate is around 160MB/s but sometimes drops to 75MB/s (occasionally much less). For writes, a dip to 120MB/s for the real application could cause a loss of some real-time data. Concentrating on Writes: with the higher transfer speeds, each of the 3 drives in the Stripe get Write commands to the same LBA and (mainly) 64K transfers. The LBAs being written to are sequentially increasing. For the â??badâ?? scores a combination of things can happen. The LBAs being written to will increase sequentially and then the LBA range will change (usually lower physical area of the disks) and/or the transfer size will change to much less than 64K (I saw one transfer of 4K). The change of LBA range wouldnâ??t hurt things much, but the change in transfer size from 64K means much less efficient use of the SCSI bus (more commands, less data with each) and seems to be the root cause of the occasional performance dip. The issue does not appear to be anything to do with fragmentation â?? just the way in which the drives are being used by XP / NTFS Hence the question - Any good tools to look at how a files is going to be mapped physically on an NTFS Software RAIDed volume - Any method of tweaking? NOTE: This is the fisrt time I've used the forums so apologies if this is the wrong forum to be asking this question! Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76941
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    - 64 bit passthru driver noe getting installed Hi, I have built the 64 bit Amd64 passthru driver. The ddk used is 2003 SP1 ddk I am trying to install this on 64-bit XP SP1 on Intel Xeon 2.8Ghz. It never gets installed on pointing to passthru driver's inf. This is what the setupapi.log emits:- [2006/03/09 16:26:31 960.15924 Driver Install] #-198 Command line processed: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE #-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTDEVICE. #-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTDEVICE. #E157 Default installer failed. Error 0xe0000214: The specified path does not contain any applicable device INFs. What is the possible cause of this issue? -- Vipin Aravind http://www.explorewindows.com Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76938
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    - virtual drive driver and few problems Hello, I've problems with my driver(w2k, wxp) 1) formating virtual drive with fat32, i get error: system could not finish operation, but drive was successfully formated. NTFS works fine. 2) sometimes system sends strange ioctl 0x0066001b, what is this? Device type 66, command 06 ?? 3) my major trouble, i cannot share my virtual drive, When someone trying access to my shared virtual drive, gets error "Not enough server storage is available to process this command". Not all my machines show this error, sometimes works fine :( Does someone have solution for mounting readonly ntfs drives on w2k? Maybe exist a patch for that. -- Marcin Gabryszewski Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76936
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    - Linker error LNK2026 Hello, I am developing and maintaining a Windows 2000 driver. In order to keep my development environment and tools up to date, I just switched from Win 2003 Server DDK to Win 2003 Server DDK SP1. Since this change, when I want to rebuild my Windows 2000 driver (using W2K inc and libs of the DDK), I get the following error : wdm.lib(NTOSKRNL.EXE) : error LNK2026: module unsafe for SAFESEH image Does anyone experienced the same? Can someone tell me the way to get out of this problem? Thanks, Olivier Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76935
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    - Occasionally false samples from a soundcard driver A PCI bus based "professional" soundcard has a digital input (S/PDIF). Connected this input to a CD player's output and recorded about 20 seconds using waverecorder. Found 12 "clicks" in the recorded WAV file. The clicks are false sample values, exactly one false sample in each case (sample rate does not matter, same at 22kHz, 44.1kHz, 48 kHz, 96 kHz). Sample value is random (never full scale nor zero). Searched for the clicks and determined their sample number. 10 of them have a sample number ending with "1", 2 of them end with "2", so definitely *not random*. Calculated the difference between sample numbers ending with "1". Calculated the gcd (greatest common divisor) of these differences and found that it is always 440 (or multiples of 440, e.g. 880, 2200). Soundcard is a PCI busmaster, but has "Min_Gnt = 0" and "Max_Lat = 0". My questions: From the point of view of a device driver programmer do you have any idea what goes wrong here? What may the 440 stand for? Juergen Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76933
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    - KMDF CoInstaller problems I'm having a problem installing a KMDF HID filter driver. If I use the CoInstaller binary in the 5308 WDK I get an error "The specified resource type cannot be found in the image file". Setupact.log suggests that the resource WDFCAB_RESOURCE cannot be found. If I use the CoInstaller binary in the 5270 WDK I get an error "An internal certificate chaining error has occured". The setupact.log suggests that GetLatestInstalledVersion failed OpenFile with error 126 If I open the 5270 coinstaller in DevStudio and extract the cab resource, right-clicking on the inf and selecting Install. Then I can install my KMDF driver without any problems. The 5308 WDK coinstaller does not appear to have this resource, and is significantly smaller. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76932
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    - WZC reverting the ssid I am working on setting SSID on my wireless network card uisng winddk using ioctl commands. For setting ssid, the steps i am using 1. For open network Stop WZC Set InfrastructureMode Set Ndis802_11WEPDisabled Set SSID strat WZC its working fine 1. For secured network Stop WZC set Ndis802_11AuthModeOpen Set InfrastructureMode Set SSID Set Ndis802_11WEPEnabled Set ADD_WEP_KEY till here its fine it get connected starat WZC ---> WZC reverts back to other SSID. So starting WZC causing the issue.What can I do to avoid it. Avnish. its working fine Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76927
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    - How can I determine the size of one cluster? Hi, all How can I determine the size of one cluster in specified file system, such as FAT32 or NTFS? It is known that: the Default Cluster Sizes can be decided by volume size. for example(For NTFS): Volume Cluster 0 to 512 MB ----- 512 bytes 513 MB to 1 GB ----- 1 KB 1025 MB to 2 GB ----- 2 KB 2 GB and greater ----- 4 KB But how can I get this exact information from system (or some place on disk)? Thanks a lot! Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76922
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    - Returning order of CompletionRoutines() and IoCallDriver() Hi Let's say I'm a high level driver and i call IoCallDriver to pass an IRP down the stack, and the whole operation is synchronous. There are several devices in the stack (let's say A,B,C,D), each one of them has a completion routine (except D). After device D completes the irp, all completion routines for all the devices are being called, and only afterwards all the IoCallDriver() routines of all the devices return? (or if I'm wrong, what is the right order?) Thanks Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76916
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    - kernel vs user file name I need to read a file in a kernel mode driver. The file name is passed from a user mode application in the form of "C:\file" or \\Computer\Share\File. Is there a standard kernel or user mode API, or some document describing the proper algorithm to convert "C:\file" to "\??\C:\file" (or "\Device\...."), and "\\Computer\Share\File" to "\Device\Lanman..." (or whatever), in order to make a user mode file name usable in kernel mode? Thank you. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76914
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    - to make memory read only Hello All, I writing a driver for windows 2k/xp/2k3. For debugging purpose I want to make a data structre read only. There is call MmProtectMdlSystemAddress to change it to read only but it is only supported from XP onward. Is there any way i can do it on windows 2000. Thanks Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76910
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    - IoCompleteRequest() from WorkItem Hi Lets say I'm in PASSIVE IRQL in a dispatch function. I mark my irp as pending. Later, I create a workitem that receives the irp as a context and do some work in it. In the end of the workitem's function, I complete the IRP. Back to the dispatch routine - after allocating and queuing the workitem, I return STATUS_PENDING. Now, because I'm in PASSIVE level, there can be a context switch from my dispatch routine to my workitem's function, so it will run and complete the irp, before I return STATUS_PENDING from the dispatch routine. (it means that when I return STATUS_PENDING, the irp is already completed!) Is there a problem with the above scenario? And if so, how should I handle it? Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76904
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    - Looking for information on USB mouse firmware Hi driver experts, I would like to learn how to write/modify/load USB mouse firmware. Any suggestions on books, support websites, forums? If this is not suitable for this site, can anyone direct me to suitable places for this kind of posts? Thanks in advance. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76903
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    - WHQL tests not required for Windows XP home? Hi, To get our driver signed for Windows XP Pro and XP Home, do I need to run WHQL test for only XP Pro or both? The document seems to indicate that XP Home is not required. Is this true? Thanks, Ning Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76902
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    - Synchronizing the clock of few computers on a LAN Hi, I have about ten computers that needs to be synchronized such as the clock time on each computer is within about 20 ms from the others. There are soft real time applications distributed on the computers that needs to synchronized. Can the windows 2000 and XP w32time service achieve that? Any third party software? Any other way to synchrinize those applications? external devices? -- Thanks, Daniel Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76897
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    - OS compatibility When building the samples for W2K I get warnings telling that certain drivers are not compatible with W2K. Is there an easy way to find out why they are not compatible? I have searched the documentation for a table showing the differences between the various OSes but I can't find one. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76892
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    - UDF Filter Driver I have written a filter driver that sits inbetween the UDF and various dvd playback applications. In my filter I need to fail a read and get the application to stop playback. I am doing this by setting Data->IoStatus.Status = STATUS_DEVICE_IO_ERROR; Data->IoStatus.Information = 0; WinDvd interprets it correctly and cleanly stops playback. MediaPlayer (and some other players) start playing ugly static out of the speakers and the time counter keeps climbing eventhough it is no longer playing video. I have tried various other status codes but it doesn't seem to matter. It seems like they are not checking the return status... Any thoughts? -- Still trying to build a perpetual motion machine Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76887
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    - Registry entry for a driver. I have a driver for a device, after i install the driver, it places lot of registry entires in the system, so how could i bactrack or recognise, what all the entries in the registry has been made by the driver. Can any one suggest your ideas, so that i would be thankful. Regards Prasanna Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76885
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    - =?utf-8?B?SG93IHRvIGhvb2sgU1RSRVRDSEJMVCDvvIhwcmludGVyIGRyaXZlcu+8iQ==?= Dear All=EF=BC=8C I am writing a printer driver=EF=BC=8CI want to hook the STRETCHBLT function=EF=BC=8Cbut I can not get it work=E3=80=82 My codes section as below=EF=BC=8C ///////////////////////////////////////////////////// hSurf =3D EngCreateBitmap( sizeSurface, GetBmpDelta(Format, pPDEV- >ulHorzRes),Format,BMF_USERMEM|BMF_TOPDOWN, NULL) ; EngAssociateSurface( (HSURF)hSurf, pPDEV->hDev, HOOK_STRETCHBLT ) ; ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// BOOL WINAPI DrvStretchBlt( IN SURFOBJ *psoDest, IN SURFOBJ *psoSrc, IN SURFOBJ *psoMask, IN CLIPOBJ *pco, IN XLATEOBJ *pxlo, IN COLORADJUSTMENT *pca, IN POINTL *pptlHTOrg, IN RECTL *prclDest, IN RECTL *prclSrc, IN POINTL *pptlMask, IN ULONG iMode ) { MessageBox(NULL,L"DrvStretchBlt",L"printer driver",MB_OK); iMode =3D HALFTONE; return EngStretchBlt( psoDest, psoSrc, psoMask, pco, pxlo, pca, pptlHTOrg, prclDest, prclSrc, pptlMask, iMode ) ; } ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Anybody can give me some advice=EF=BC=8CThanks a lot=EF=BC=81 Best Regards=EF=BC=8C Black Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76879
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    - USB Host controller on Windows I want to transfer data from a SH7727 target board to Windows through USB protocol. How should I go about it? If i use the host controller on PC,what is the procedure to access the USB port of the target board. please help me out. I am stuck. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76876
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    - WDK install issue Does anyone know of a way to specify the installation directory when the MSI has disabled the browse functionality? I do not have enough harddrive space on C: and would like to install to D: instead. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76872
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    - PICs for driver signing in x64 unavailable? I was just forwarded an email response we received from WinQual when we inquired about getting a PIC for signing our drivers for the new x64 signing policy. I'm hoping I'm just over reacting, but... I was disturbed to hear that they are not available at this time. In fact, there was a strong implication in this email that PICs would not be available until the last release candidate for Vista. Here is the relevant portion of this email: "This is not available yet, but should be in time for Vista launch. The PIC is a new signing program for files we couldn?t sign before. We?ll be making more announcements regarding the availability of PIC to sign drivers as we get closer to the Vista logo program launch, which will be at the last Release Candidate." Microsoft has done this in the past (i.e. not releasing full WHQL tests, signing tools, etc. until just before RTM), and it always has caused problems. So I'm trying to head this off at the pass this time. I don't know about the rest of you, but we need time to get a PIC, integrate signing with it into our build process, build a driver, test it internally, fix any problems that signing caused (and rebuild and retest) and deliver a candidate driver to the OEMs early enough that they have time to test it themselves (and get any needed bug fixes) before their deadline for burning a golden master for manufacturing of their first x64 machines. And that's assuming that the Vista Beta community doesn't find any bugs in the kernel embedded signing code in Windows... I'm crossposting this to m.p.d.d.d because I think this issue is of wider interest than just the winlogo newsgroup. And yes, I've already sent an email to WinQual about this. -- Ray Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76867
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    - Bug in CDROM.SYS In DDK2000...WDK 5112, CDROM.SYS!CdRomInterpretReadCapacity contains the following code: ---------------------------- // // Calculate media capacity in bytes. // commonExtension->PartitionLength.QuadPart = (LONGLONG)(lastSector + 1); // // we've defaulted to 32/64 forever. don't want to change this now... // fdoExtension->DiskGeometry.TracksPerCylinder = 0x40; fdoExtension->DiskGeometry.SectorsPerTrack = 0x20; // // Calculate number of cylinders. // fdoExtension->DiskGeometry.Cylinders.QuadPart = (LONGLONG)((lastSector + 1) / (32 * 64)); commonExtension->PartitionLength.QuadPart = (commonExtension->PartitionLength.QuadPart << fdoExtension->SectorShift); ---------------------- The code rounds the number of cylinders to (32*64) for DISK_GEOMETRY, which results in a wrong value returned to the caller. The number of sectors becomes wrong, too (TracksPerCylinder * SectorsPerTrack * Cylinders). IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT and IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO return the correct media capacity in PARTITION_INFORMATION.PartitionLength. The difference between PARTITION_INFORMATION and DISK_GEOMETRY prevents certain filesystems, including NTFS, from being mounted from CD/DVD/BD/HDDVD/... >> // we've defaulted to 32/64 forever. don't want to change this now... I think now it's a good time to fix it at last, at least for Vista. Thanks Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76866
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    - XP64 -does not load Windows Defender (Beta 2) spyware detector - Any solution to loading Windows Defender (beta 2) on XP64 ? Error message said it only works on 32 bit systems. Why doesn't it load in the 32 bit section? Seems a little wierd that the Deffender can not be used in XP64. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76864
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    - WDF 1.0 PCIDRV.sys and NDISEDGE.sys will not load I built pcidrv.sys and ndisedge.sys with Winddk Longhorn x86 checked environment, plus set_wdf_env.cmd and kmdf\inc. Then installed them with the netdrv.inf and wdf**.dll co-installer in vista Beta2. However, both drivers cannot be loaded and the device manager error code is #37, "Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware." No any event log associated with those failure either. Can any Microsoft expert duplicate the problem ? or I missed anything during build or install ? Thanks for any advice. -Gary Li Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76863
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    - Mobo Procomp (BS61M ver.1.0 socket 370) Hi to all, i'm searching for the win98 driver (video and sound on-board) of Procomp (BS61M ver.1.0 socket 370), in subject. tanks to all. Matteo Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76858
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    - assembly routine return values in which regs?? Folks, For IA32 assembly code, the return values from routine will be stored in ECX & EAX registers..... For AMD64 assembly code, will the return values be stored in RCX & RAX registers? Also, (in AMD64) if the routine just need to return single byte, then would it just need to store it in AL register (& word means AX, DWORD means EAX and so on)?? -- ++Sathya Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76854
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    - unidrv plugins and dialog boxes I have been having difficulty trying to determine where it is possible to display a dialog box from a unidrv plug-in. From what I read in the documentation it appears as though both UI and rendering plugins run in the application's context, before anything is sent to the spooler. If this is indeed the case I would assume that it would be possible to display a dialog box to capture document specific properties during EnablePDEV processing in a rendering plug-in. This would allow me to capture things like fax #s for each document by displaying a dialog to the user who started the job. I further assume that the dialog box would appear in a particular user's termnal services window. Are my assumptions correct or am I completely out to lunch? If I am out to lunch what would be the easiest way to capture fax #s for each individual document in a terminal services environment? Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76853
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    - MONITOR_INFO_2 What are the values pEnvironment member of MONITOR_INFO_2 can take today? The below is from the documentation, which I beleive is old. What about 64 bit systems(itanium and AMD)? pEnvironment Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the environment for which the monitor was written (for example, Windows NT x86, Windows NT R4000, Windows NT Alpha_AXP, or Windows 4.0). -- Vipin Aravind http://www.explorewindows.com Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76852
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    - Word crashes with my printer driver, but no other programs do. Hi, I'm developing a printer driver UI based on the MSPLOTUI sample from the DDK. It works great from all applications except Word, which craches. It seems that Word is calling some functions on the driver that the other programs don't. Can anyone give me a list of the printer driver functions that Word calls, and the order they are called? /Erik Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76851
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    - Large Transfer Lengths With SCSI Pass-Through? Is it possible to make transfer larger then 64KB via SCSI Pass-Through? If so how is the best way to go about it? If this is SCSI HBA dependent how can you tell the maximum transfer length size allowed? I looking to test up to 16MB transfers. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76849
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    - Write a WDM driver Hi, I wanted to write a Mouse filter driver which will intercept the mouse click and trigger the user applications like those in the logitech , but not their own.. i wanted to invoke my own applicatoins. I have tried to write the mouse driver but got stuck.. I am stuck at this point as what approach I should take? If I should take the HID class help or what ... ? I have fair understanding of the WDM but not done any fillter drivers... I want to the driver on the machines and configure the mouse to open my application intercepting the mouse clicks.. I would really appreciate if anybody gives me the proper direction on designing the driver.. thanks. -- Abhijit. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76848
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    - installing a driver using devcon hello, i have a weird behavior i don't understand - i'm using devcon in order to install a software driver. when i put the sys and inf file in any folder (even hidden) everything is ok, but when i put them in the c:\windows\inf file there is a pop up asking for the sys file (and when i direct it to the inf folder it installs it). why is that? how do i solve that? thank you, Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76847
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    - Causes of USBD_STATUS_ISO_NOT_ACCESSED_BY_HW Greetings, I realize in my previous post "NEC B1 HC chokes with full BW USB2 ISO IN stream" my primary question was hidden in a flurry of details. Can I be doing something in my USB camera driver to cause the USBD_STATUS_ISO_NOT_ACCESSED_BY_HW error I am seeing with the NEC host controller? The only thing I have heard of that causes this error is URB starvation. That is clearly not the trouble. I am queuing 10 URBs of 32 packets each. Also, the driver works perfeftly under the VIA controller. Is there some subtle error I might be causing that effects the NEC controller but not the VIA one, or is there simply a bug in the NEC controller? Best regards, Tom Udale Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76846
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    - WDF Driver Install problem Hi, I'm developing a WDF driver for a PCI device. I have written a simple driver and the INF. The INF file seems ok when used with CHKINF. When i install it on the target system (XP checked build 2600) everything looks ok but at the end it simply says the drivers are not installed. Looking in WinDBG reveals the following when the driver installs: InstallDev error = 643 Anyone have any suggestions? Have tried to find information on the error but am having trouble finding anything. Thanks in advance. Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76844
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    - PC as USB device Is it possible that I can design an application running on my PC behave as an USB device to another USB host(running on a SH7727 board)? Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76840
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    - DDK PCIDRV + NDISEDGE cannot be loaded in Vista B2. I built the winddk samples of pcidrv and ndisedge in longhorn x86 build environment of winddk, and used the netdrv.inf to install them in Vista Beta2. ndisedge.sys is loaded as the upper filter driver of pcidrv, and the DriverEntry() is called. However, the MPInitialize() never been called, instead, MPUnload() in ndisedge.sys is called and the filter driver is unloaded. pcidrv.sys itself is working Ok. Anyone has suggestion what I did wrong ? build or install ? or the ndisedge.sys itself has problem ? Thanks in advance. -Gary Li Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76831
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    - NEC B1 HC chokes with full BW USB2 ISO IN stream Greetings, I have tracked down a bug that looks for all the world like it is caused by the NEC B1 HC on the Adaptec USB2 PCI interface card I have. The host is a MP Athlon system running XP SP1 with the Adaptec card using the NEC B1 EHCI controller and a separate VIA EHCI controller on the mobo. Both controllers are using the Microsoft usbehci.sys driver version 5.1.2600.1243. When running a full bandwidth ISO stream from a USB camera (3072 bytes/microframe), the NEC controller chokes with USBD_STATUS_ISO_NOT_ACCESSED_BY_HW (c0020000). It does it horribly when running on a MP boot. If I run on a UP boot of the same machine (same HC driver), it is still there but not as bad. Now if I switch the camera over to the VIA controller, everything else I think exactly the same, the error goes away entirely. It is gone on both the MP and UP boots. Before I checked the VIA HC, I thought it was the camera being too slow and not responding to the IN token in enough time. But after seeing the difference with the VIA HC, I looked a little more carefully and saw on my bus analyzer that indeed the IN token is never sent. So it is clearly on the host end. It is always the third transaction in the microframe that fails; after two successful transactions. I was really surprised that a HC would fail like that. I looked online to see if there were any known troubles with that particular HC, but I did not see anything. Anyone have any ideas?? Best regards, Tom Udale Tag: Printer driver packaging Tag: 76819

Hello,

I have a question and i hope somebody will be able to help.

I need information on how to package and distribute a printer driver to be
conform to the "Designed for Windows" signature.

Thanks.

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Re: Printer driver packaging by Vipin

Vipin
Fri Mar 10 08:46:12 CST 2006

you need to contact whql.

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Vipin Aravind
http://www.explorewindows.com

"Joanna" <Joanna.Khoury@amyuni.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have a question and i hope somebody will be able to help.
>
> I need information on how to package and distribute a printer driver to be
> conform to the "Designed for Windows" signature.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

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