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    - XP SP2 WDM driver - Sharing Memory between driver and application : Hi all, I have to confess... I'm almost translating my application from Windows to Linux just because I can't make a WDM driver for my PCI card... Help me, please! I have a motion control PCI card that can command 2 motors. That card generate interrupts. I have an application and an old driver (VxD) working very well with Windows 98 SE, but now I'm trying to make a WDM driver for Windows XP Professional SP2 because Microsoft is not selling Win98 anymore. In my new WDM driver, the communication with the PCI card from the driver and from the application (I pass an address from the driver to the application, so the app can communicate directly with the card) is tested and working fine. The interrupt service routine (ISR) is working very weel too. The only big problem is that I need to share 10 buffers between the driver and the user app (velocity, aceleration, etc). Those buffers can't be swaped to the disk and some of then are 1MB length, and one is 9MB lentgth. They are filled with velocity, aceleration and other information by the application, and the driver fill some buffers with other kind of information. My PCI card has no memory, so I have to make use of "user buffers" (created in the app) or "system buffers" (created in the driver). The most important thing is that those buffers MUST be used (read & write) inside the ISR, at any moment, as weel as the buffers MUST be accessed (read & write) from the user app at any time (of course, not when the driver is inside the ISR). The app must be running all the time because it needs to get events from the user to communicate the driver to start or stop listening to interrupts, so it seems to me that I can't return STATUS_PENDING with METHOD_DIRECT (can I?). And the two big questions are: 1. Is that realy possible? (Are you sure?) 2. How? I've been reading all the posts about this subject from all lists and years, since Jan.2004 to this day, and I couldn't find a way to get that driver working ok. I also have the Viscarola & Mason "Windows NT Device Driver Development" book... Good help, but couldn't sove the problem. Can you help me? Thanks a lot. Paulo. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57584
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    - IoConnectInterrupt Continued... From the DDK documentation, title "Registering an Isr": To register an ISR, a driver's DispatchPnP routine must call IoConnectInterrupt when it receives an IRP_MN_START_DEVICE request. In response, the I/O Manager creates an interrupt object for each processor that the device can interrupt. In a previous thread, I had gotten several suggestions about which parameter to IoConnectInterrupt was causing it to fail with STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER, but none of them helped. The code worked OK on single processor systems. If the affinity argument (extracted from the translated resource list in the start device IRP) indicates that more than one processor can be interrupted, how does the I/O manager return a pointer to multiple interrupt objects? Is there some special coding to connect an interrupt on a multi-processor machine? The DDK documentation seems to have little to say about this. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57579
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    - 1394 XP SP2 KB885222 In XP SP2, 1394b device speed is S100 and to change it as in SP1 I am trying to follow KB885222. But after running this download, I get KB885222 setup error "Cannot create a file when that file already exist" even the first time I ran this. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57563
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    - Anti Virus Filter Driver ACPI S1 Test - WHQL. Hello All, I have been running this test and always it gives me that error saying... ERROR: NET:\\Server_ip\Share , Status = 3221235508, Net Enum and ping test ERROR: No Systems wher found enumerating the network. Wait for 30 seconds... I have another system 192.168.2.114 and i create a share download on it which has read and write rights. Even if before running the test i change the parameter to \\192.168.2.114\Download I get the same thing again and again ERROR: NET:\\192.168.2.114\Download , Status = 3221235508, Net Enum and ping test ERROR: No Systems wher found enumerating the network. Wait for 30 seconds... Because of this my test fails... I also read in help that it was network testing...IS this mandatory for AV Filter driver test...? Can i submit with this error??? How to solve this error if i need to avoid this problem? Thanks and Regards Shal Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57562
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    - find PDO of hid collection I want to filter a hid gamepad, and I found there are ALMOST no samples for hidparse.dll in kernel mode. I have tried to find any information about that, but frustrated. How to find PDO of gampad collection in kernel mode? Is there any running example? Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57561
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    - i8042prt compilation & missing headers Hello, I have a small problem: when trying to compile the DDK\SRC\INPUT\PNPI8042 sample, I get error about undefined symbols: KEYBOARD_ID_EX PPORT_KEYBOARD_EXTENSION and so on. I've searched through all the files inside the DDK, but have found no other reference and/or definition of this symbols :-{ Can somebody please points me to the source of this symbols ? Thanks a lot. Best regards Zdenek OGAR Skalak Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57560
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    - TDI Filter Driver blocking connections Hi I'm a newbie in driver development and after a great deal of effort I finally managed to implement a pass-through NT4-style filter driver for \device\tcp. I'm watching the debug output from the driver and I see that it gets called whenever a TCP connection is made, but although it passes the IRP down to the lower device successfully (at least, I think it does) every connection attempt failes with error code 10022: bad format thing. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57557
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    - USB Video-Class DK Hi I heard that USB Video-Class Development kit for windows 2000 was repleased December, last year. Would You tel me about USB Video-Class Development kit or Something like USB Video-Class Development kit ? Best regards. shinji. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57545
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    - create a user process from device driver Greetings - I want to kick off a user process from my kernel driver; what's the best way to do this ? Can I simply use createprocess ? Thanks, BF Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57542
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    - Createfile How to use Createfile Function to Open the WDM video capture source filter associated with the camera? How to use Createfile Function to Open the still pin on the filter? rainwin Huang Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57541
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    - Using inf file to limit installation to XP only My File System Filter driver depends on certain features that are only available on XP and later, how do I indicate this in my INF file? -- Gak - Finecats Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57538
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    - Modem Device Class under Enum\Root:Unable to Communicate to COM Port Hi All, I have written a lower filter Modem Class Driver that attaches to all the Modem Devices on a system.It behaves just like serial.sys. It works fine with all modems,except a certain LG Phone that connects via the Serial Port.In this case,I am unable to communicate with the COM Port (COM1) below and get the same message : "Port Disconnected" (C000037) in my NT Status codes whenever I try to send a Set Wait Mask or Get Modem Status via my driver using IOCTLs. On inspecting the device tree I noted that this phone installs as mdmgen288 ,under the Root/Modem Class. It also has its LowerFilters set to ROOTMODEM. Anyone has any ideas on why this is not working? I am stumped.I went through other google groups/the web/ddk for more information and I am really at my wits end. Thanks in advance Jack Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57534
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    - UNIDRV IOemUni::ImageProcessing Question I am confused about how to use the bBlankBand variable in the ImageProcessing function. When the print driver is banding, bBlankBand will be 1 for the first band and then 0 for the remaining bands. The documentation says that if it is 0 then the data is invalid. But I never receive any further calls to ImagePricessing with bBlankBand set to 1. As a result I only get the top portion of the image. Do I have to do something else to get the remaining bands rendered? I am using the oemdll example in the DDK. When the driver is not banding then I get the whole image in one shot but higher DPI's force me to deal with banding in ImageProcessing which I can't seem to get to function correctly. Thanks, Bob Herzberg Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57508
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    - IoConnectInterrupt Hello All, My driver testing has progressed to a multi-processor system, and now IoConnectInterrupt fails with status 0xc000000d (invalid parameter). I am using XP w/SP2. This all worked on a single processor system. The parameters I get in the start device IRP are: vector: 0xa4 irql: 9 affinity: 0xa4 mode: 3 shared: FALSE I think the bad parameter is the affinity. I double checked that I was getting vector from u.Interrupt.Vector, and affinity from u.Interrupt.Affinity. Is there some magic I need to do to connect an interrupt on a multi-processor machine? Thanks! Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57507
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    - DDK function to disable interrupt? Hi Are there any ways from DDK (API) to disable a particular interrupt? thanks -- Robert Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57501
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    - Windows Update causing problems with Cypress FX2 development board Hi all, I would like to warn the Windows Cypress FX2 USB development community about and bring to Microsoft's attention a very annoying problem that I had this morning. I plugged in my Cypress FX2 development board (CY3681) and Windows went searching for drivers for it, because between today and the last time I used the board I had uninstalled the USB 2.0 host controller in order to force renumeration of previously-installed USB devices on my system the next time I plug them in. (This is something I do from time to time during development to make sure that my development devices enumerate properly.) Anyway, Windows found the proper .INF file and installed the correct driver... then promptly went ahead and installed a DIFFERENT driver, one for a 'Sperling USB HDTV' device! I assure you I have never installed any USB HDTV drivers on my system. Ever. I went looking through the .INF files and found an entry in one of the oem##.inf files (in my case oem18.inf) there was an entry with the SAME VID and PID as the development board! It looks like some hardware developer was building a prototype with the FX2 sans EEPROM and let the development board's VID and PID slip into the .INF file. I removed the offending entry from the .INF file, did the aforementioned uninstall trick on the USB Host Controller, plugged in my development board, and got the SAME RESULTS. This time, however, the offending entry had been written to a brand-new .INF file. I tried removing the .INF file altogether the second time and the same thing happened. Many different combinations caused the same thing to happen. Whatever I tried to do to force that entry to be gone was undone. I had a colleague look at it and he suggested that it might be picking up the information from Windows Update. So I unplugged my network cable, uninstalled the USB Host Controller again, and plugged in my FX2 board, and it worked. I am not really familiar with what happens with Windows Update behind the scenes. I would first of all like to know what was happening, if in fact the .INF file entry was getting picked up from Windows Update, and, if so, if there's a way to prevent this in the future. (I have auto-updates turned off, but I know my company pushes periodic updates to my machine.) Secondly, it seems very bad to me thata vendor is shipping an .INF file with the same VID and PID as another device from another vendor. For reference, the entry appeared on my machine in oem18.inf. The first few lines of the file mention USBHDTV.INF and 'This file contins installation information for OnAir USB HDTV, An MPEG2 WDM capture driver that requires hardware'. Aaron Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57493
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    - HID Joysticks and Win98 I wrote a WDM HID minidriver to create a virtual joystick. Problem is that the joystick does not show up in the game controller control panel app of Windows 98. The device manager, however, shows the HID-compliant game controller device create by my driver. Since it works fine in Windows Me/2000/XP, I suspect that my HID report descriptor cannot be parsed by Windows 98 (I noticed that the WinMe implementation is somewhat picky in that regards, whereas 2000/XP takes about anything), but I am not positive on that. I wonder if somebody has a working report descriptor (joystick or other type of game controller that shows up in the control panel app) that is known to work with Windows 98 and is willing to share. I tried already many different variations, but no fun yet. Also, any hints on that topic would be greatly appreciated. Karl Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57486
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    - Blocking PCMCIA, SCSI and IDE storage devices Dear All, I need to block all mass storage devices that can be connected to PCMCIA, SCSI and IDE slots. My current plan is to write 3 class filter drivers to PCMCIA, SCSI and IDE and block their PnP irps. Does there any other method so that we can block these devices ( PCMCIA, SCSI and IDE) from a single driver. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. regards John Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57484
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    - No audio after install Win SBS 2003 Hi, No audio when I installed Win SBS 2003 on a Gigabyte GA-8I915P Motherboard with on-board CMedia 9880. Updated to Microsoft UAA v1.0(KB835221) before installing CMedia. Installation completed but still no audio. Went "Test Hardware" under Sounds in Control Panel, says "Sound hardware cannot play sounds, Contact your vendor.". Please help. Microsft UAA Bus Driver v5.10.0.5010 5/3/2004 CMedia HD Audio Device Driver v5.12.1.7 27/7/2004 Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57483
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    - Sharing Code Between Drivers and Applications If I wanted to share a function between a driver and an application how could I go about doing this? Is there a special type of DLL that can be shared between the two? Many Thanks, Simon Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57482
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    - Notifications in Printer Driver Hello All, I developed universal mini printer driver which prints a image rather than output to a printer. I used a rendering plug-in and some GPD files. I need to compress the image created. I have some existing library to do this. I need to do some loading and unloading of objects and other stuff at various print states. My question is which component should i implement to get the notification of the following print states: starting a job, ending job, cancelling job, start doct, ending doc, start page, end page. The rendering plug-in implements OEMStartDoc, OEMEndDoc, OEMStartPage, OEMSendPage. Is this the correct component to handle my requirement? I did not find any job related routines in rendering plug-in. Which component should i implement for print job related status like start,end and cancelling a job? Do i need to implement a print processor or print monitor? Is it possible to implement everything in a single component? Any suggestions would help me. Thanks in Advance. Regards, Madhu. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57479
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    - graphics function in windows 98SE Hi, Can anyone tell me about the sequence of various graphics functions being called in windows 98 SE to draw the screen over monitor. regards, Andy Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57476
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    - Need Help Hi, I want to be able to get status data from my printer. My printer is a thermal printer. Printing job is made through a mini-driver. I think I should make my own language monitor. I 've begin to write the dll which shows DllEntryPoint and InitializePrintMonitor2. The code in InitializePrintMonitor2 follows : g_Trace.Init(_T("My Language Monitor")); g_Trace.m_bTraceEnabled = true; g_MON.pfnAddPort = NULL; g_MON.pfnAddPortEx = NULL; g_MON.pfnClosePort = AX_ClosePort; g_MON.pfnConfigurePort = NULL; g_MON.pfnDeletePort = NULL; g_MON.pfnEndDocPort = AX_EndDocPort; g_MON.pfnEnumPorts = AX_EnumPorts; g_MON.pfnGetPrinterDataFromPort = AX_GetPrinterDataFromPort; g_MON.pfnOpenPort = AX_OpenPort; g_MON.pfnOpenPortEx = AX_OpenPortEx; g_MON.pfnReadPort = AX_ReadPort; g_MON.pfnSendRecvBidiDataFromPort = NULL; g_MON.pfnSetPortTimeOuts = AX_SetPortTimeOuts; g_MON.pfnShutdown = NULL; g_MON.pfnStartDocPort = AX_StartDocPort; g_MON.pfnWritePort = AX_WritePort; g_MON.pfnXcvClosePort = AX_XcvClosePort; g_MON.pfnXcvDataPort = AX_XcvDataPort; g_MON.pfnXcvOpenPort = AX_XcvOpenPort; int nOSVersion = g_Trace.GetOSVersion(); if ( (nOSVersion == OS_WIN32_WINDOWS_95) || (nOSVersion == OS_WIN32_WINDOWS_98)|| (nOSVersion == OS_WIN32_WINDOWS_Me)) { g_Trace.Log(_T("InitializePrinterMonitor2 failed : Wrong OS version")); SetLastError(ERROR_OLD_WIN_VERSION); return NULL; } if ( nOSVersion == OS_WIN32_WINDOWS_2000) g_MON.cbSize = MONITOR2_SIZE_WIN2K; else g_MON.cbSize = sizeof(MONITOR2); *phMonitor = (PHANDLE)pMonitorInit; g_Trace.Log(_T("InitializePrinterMonitor2 succeeded")); return &g_MON; I can see that my Dll is loaded by the spooler because I can read the message "My language monitor" and "InitializePrintMonitor2 succeeded" when I try to install it, but at the end of "add printer wizzard", I receive the followed message : "The specified print monitor is unknown" and my printer is not installed. What is wrong ? At this moment, all the AX_ functions are empty and return TRUE, I just want to test the installation of my language monitor. Do I in the good way or not ? Please help me. Thanks in advance. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57472
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    - Kernel mode DLL Startup Dear List, I read a nice article(http://www.wd-3.com/archive/KernelDlls.htm) which gives solution to many of my problems. As described in this article I will be exporting some functions and calling them from my other driver. But I have some installation related queries. * During installation, I want to start an application which will load the kernel-dll before the actual driver. (will RunOnce key in .inf guarantee this) or is there any other way i can do this. -- Regards Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57471
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    - CM_Reenumeration_DevNoe in Win98 Sirs. Dose Win98 support CM_Reenumeration_DevNoe function?? poly Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57466
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    - about iscsiprt Hi,all: I want to write a virtual scsi disk,and i want to attach this disk to PDO which created by iScsiport0,but i don't know how to notify iScsiport0 there is a new device arrived,How can i notify iScsiport0? Thanks a lot Shumin.Xie 2005.1.11 Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57463
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    - StorePort routines or CreateFile/ReadFile/WriteFile Hi, I am trying to write a little diagnotstic program that issues bunch of ATA commands to IDE HDD for testing purpose. I happened to find a bunch of StorePort routines in DDK documentation, which also does read/write to the port. I am wondering which is proper way to comminicate with ATA devices, such as excersising ATA command, passing CDBs to the devices and configuring DMA mode. Thanks a lot! Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57460
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    - irq&irql Hi, I'm trying to understand irq and irql. I used softice to observe my system and found the following: Interrupt irq irql A 3 4 B 4 9 Suppose When I run ISR for interrupt A(irq=4, irql=9), interrupt B comes. From CPU point of view, B, which has a higher priority, can interrupt A. But from Windows point of view, the irql of B is 4 which is less than current irql of A(9). Therefore, B can't interrupt A. What does HAL do for this case? Thanks, Min Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57458
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    - can't see TDI_SEND_DATAGRAM called HI.... I'm analyzind a TDI filter.... I like to trace the calls going through the filter and functions that gets called... to do so I have simple client/server TCP and UDP apps... when Testing the TCP app I can see that TDI_CONNECT and TDI_SEND gets called in the InternalDispatchTable.... However when Testing the UDP app I can't see the TDI_SEND_DATAGRAM called (though app is working)..... However when Windows Services.exe runs (in the background) TDI_SEMD_DATAGRAM is called..... why is that?????????? 1. does this depends on how exactly the upper layer application makes the socket/send call???? 2. How many different ways do we have to make that call?? 3. What exactly is the difference between FsContext and FsContext2 fileds are in the File Object???? 4. The EventType filed in PTDI_REQUEST_KERNEL_SET_EVENT structure returns 2 and 10... what exactly are they?? would very much appreciate your feedback. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57453
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    - USB PortStatus During DispatchCreate Does any one know what can cause the PortStatus from IOCTL_INTERNAL_USB_GET_PORT_STATUS to NOT return USBD_PORT_ENABLED. I'm trying to check the Port status when opening my USB Device \\Device (pFileObject->FileName.Length == 0). Under some circumstances I get a USBD_PORT_CONNECTED but !USBD_PORT_ENABLED. I'm trying out simply sending a IOCTL_INTERNAL_USB_RESET_PORT in this case. But I'm curious to try to reproduce this under a more controlled situation than just waiting for it to occur. The only way I've been able to reproduce this is plug/unplug/plug quickly. Thanks for any information Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57450
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    - Implementing WMI support for scsi miniport driver James, Thanks for getting back so soon. I just have a too long of the holiday. First of, > Have any of your WMI routines been called? Nop. I implement only two functions (out of six wmi functions) (QueryWmiRegInfo, and QueryWmiDataBlock) and none of these two function got called. In particular, have you built > (perhaps as your own call from HwScsiFindAdapter) your WMILIB structure, > which specifies your WMI routine entry points? Typically this structure > would be hung off (pointed to by) your adapter (device) extension. Yes. I stare at this structure many times and still could not find any error yet. { ... WmiLibContext = &dvx->WmiLibContext; WmiLibContext->GuidList = A154xGuidList; DebugPrint((1," GuidCount: %d\n", A154xGuidCount)); WmiLibContext->GuidCount = A154xGuidCount; WmiLibContext->QueryWmiRegInfo = A154xQueryWmiRegInfo; WmiLibContext->QueryWmiDataBlock = A154xQueryWmiDataBlock; WmiLibContext->SetWmiDataItem = NULL; WmiLibContext->SetWmiDataBlock = NULL; WmiLibContext->WmiFunctionControl = NULL; WmiLibContext->ExecuteWmiMethod = NULL; } Further, > has your HwScsiStartIo been called with any WMI-type SRBs? Has your WMI > Query Registration routine (which would be specified in the WMILIB > structure) been called? Nop. I 'debugprint' a string showing the SRB function everytime StartIO starts. None is showing WMI function request. > > Next, do another '!analyze -v' and let me see the summary, the failing > instruction and the failing call stack. Connected to Windows XP 2600 x86 compatible target, ptr64 FALSE Loading Kernel Symbol .................................................................................................. Loading unloaded module list ......... Loading User Symbol ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 7E, {c0000005, ef54fae6, f51ebaa4, f51eb7a4} Probably caused by : SCSIPORT.SYS ( SCSIPORT!SpWmiPassToMiniPort+11a ) Followup: MachineOwner --------- nt!RtlpBreakWithStatusInstruction: 80aaad34 cc int 3 kd> !analyze - ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * ******************************************************************************* SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (7e) This is a very common bugcheck. Usually the exception address pinpoints the driver/function that caused the problem. Always note this address as well as the link date of the driver/image that contains this address. Arguments: Arg1: c0000005, The exception code that was not handled Arg2: ef54fae6, The address that the exception occurred at Arg3: f51ebaa4, Exception Record Address Arg4: f51eb7a4, Context Record Address Debugging Details: ------------------ ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory at "0x%08lx". The memory could not be "%s". FAULTING_IP: SCSIPORT!SpWmiPassToMiniPort+11a ef54fae6 8b4804 mov ecx,[eax+0x4] EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: f51ebaa4 CONTEXT: f51eb7a4 -- (.cxr fffffffff51eb7a4) eax=00000000 ebx=81fa71e8 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=f51ebc7c edi=f51ebbf4 eip=ef54fae6 esp=f51ebb6c ebp=f51ebc14 iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz ac po cy cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010297 SCSIPORT!SpWmiPassToMiniPort+0x11a: ef54fae6 8b4804 mov ecx,[eax+0x4] Resetting default scope DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT BUGCHECK_STR: 0x7E LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from ef55076a to ef54fae6 STACK_TEXT: f51ebc14 ef55076a 81f34038 00000008 f51ebc7c SCSIPORT!SpWmiPassToMiniPort+0x11a f51ebc60 ef550eea 81f34038 001ebc7c 81f34038 SCSIPORT!SpWmiIrpRegisterRequest+0x16b f51ebc8c ef52858d 81f340f0 81f15810 81f15810 SCSIPORT!ScsiPortSystemControlIrp+0xe6 f51ebca0 80a20812 81f34038 81f15810 c00000bb SCSIPORT!ScsiPortGlobalDispatch+0x1b f51ebcb8 80c06c9e f51ebd40 81f15810 81f5fc78 nt!IopfCallDriver+0x4f f51ebce8 80c06e61 81f15810 00000008 81f34038 nt!WmipForwardWmiIrp+0x23b f51ebd14 80c0912d 00000008 81f34038 00000000 nt!WmipSendWmiIrp+0x8b f51ebd50 80c092ae 82034b38 00000000 82034b38 nt!WmipRegisterOrUpdateDS+0xa3 f51ebd64 80c0a201 82034b38 82063020 80af1e7c nt!WmipRegisterDS+0x42 f51ebd80 80ab9ebb 00000000 00000000 82063020 nt!WmipRegistrationWorker+0x101 f51ebdac 80baee56 00000000 00000000 00000000 nt!ExpWorkerThread+0x10d f51ebddc 80ac815e 80ab9dae 80000001 00000000 nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x34 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 nt!KiThreadStartup+0x16 FOLLOWUP_IP: SCSIPORT!SpWmiPassToMiniPort+11a ef54fae6 8b4804 mov ecx,[eax+0x4] SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner SYMBOL_NAME: SCSIPORT!SpWmiPassToMiniPort+11a MODULE_NAME: SCSIPORT IMAGE_NAME: SCSIPORT.SYS DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 3d6dd526 STACK_COMMAND: .cxr fffffffff51eb7a4 ; kb BUCKET_ID: 0x7E_SCSIPORT!SpWmiPassToMiniPort+11a Followup: MachineOwner --------- Further, do '!lmi scsiport.sys' for > me. I need to narrow down where in SpWmiPassToMiniPort the error occurs > (presuming it is still failing in that routine). > kd> !lmi scsiport.sys Loaded Module Info: [scsiport.sys] Module: SCSIPORT Base Address: ef528000 Image Name: SCSIPORT.SYS Machine Type: 332 (I386) Time Stamp: 3d6dd526 Thu Aug 29 01:02:46 2002 Size: 31100 CheckSum: 3e6f6 Characteristics: 10e Debug Data Dirs: Type Size VA Pointer CODEVIEW 25, 13364, 13364 RSDS - GUID: (0x fff6751, 0x251a, 0x456a, 0xb6, 0x2b, 0x36, 0xf3, 0xc5, 0xcb, 0xbe, 0xb5) Age: 1, Pdb: scsiport.pdb Image Type: MEMORY - Image read successfully from loaded memory. Symbol Type: PDB - Symbols loaded successfully from symbol server. D:\Download\MS_Symbol_store\scsiport.pdb\0FFF6751251A456AB62B36F3C5CBBEB51\scsiport.pdb Load Report: public symbols , not source indexed D:\Download\MS_Symbol_store\scsiport.pdb\0FFF6751251A456AB62B36F3C5CBBEB51\scsiport.pdb Thank you for looking into this for me. This is greatly appreciated. Long Manage Your Profile |Legal |Contact Us |MSDN Flash Newsletter Â©2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use |Trademarks |Privacy Statement Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57448
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    - USB Host Driver Greetings, We are currently developing a specialized USB host controller mini-port driver that is not UHCI, OHCI, or EHCI compliant for Windows 2K, 2003 server, and Windows XP. The current DDK does not provide any information concerning the interface between the Windows host controller driver (e.g., usbport.sys under WinXP) and the minicontroller drivers (e.g., usbuhci.sys). The design of our hardware requires that we interface to the USB host controller stack at the USB mini-port level, so we need information about how to create a USB mini-port driver for these different operating systems. We've had discussions with other developers who have done this and they've told us we need to contact Microsoft directly to obtain this information. Could anyone please advise us how we go about obtaining this information? Thanks, Keith Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57443
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    - How do USBCAMD for USB2.0 receive over then 1 packet per SOF Hello there, I modify the USBCAMD from video minidrv for using usb 2.0 device. I use bcdUSB to check the device is running on usb1.1 or usb2.0. I also modify the USBCAMD_StartDevice(), so that usb 2.0 device can allocatebandwidth if (bcdUSB==0x200){ USBCAMD_NUM_ISO_PACKETS_PER_REQUEST=256; //32 USBCAMD_MAX_REQUEST=4; //2 } However, when I choice a 900*3 alternating setting, the packet receive 1 packet/1 SOF all the time. I am sure the packet that waiting for transfer is over then 900, but why there is only packet transmitted? I need your help: Where is the point that the USB driver knows there exist more then 1 packet/SOF can be used? Where is the command that the driver set the packet to be 3? Can anybody help? Thank you!! -- D.D. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57439
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    - Driver_irql_not_less_or_equal Hello I have some little problem. I Attached my device to serial port, and i configure connection but when i try to : irpStack = IoGetCurrentIrpStackLocation(SmartcardExtension->ReaderExtension->SerialStatusIrp); irpStack->MajorFunction = IRP_MJ_DEVICE_CONTROL; irpStack->MinorFunction = 0UL; irpStack->Parameters.DeviceIoControl.OutputBufferLength = sizeof(SmartcardExtension->ReaderExtension->ModemStatus); irpStack->Parameters.DeviceIoControl.IoControlCode = IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_MODEMSTATUS; SmartcardExtension->ReaderExtension->SerialStatusIrp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer = &SmartcardExtension->ReaderExtension->ModemStatus; SmartcardExtension->ReaderExtension->GetModemStatus = TRUE; status = IoCallDriver( SmartcardExtension->ReaderExtension->AttachedDeviceObject, SmartcardExtension->ReaderExtension->SerialStatusIrp ); I had a BSOD - Driver_irql_not_less_or_equal, and i have no idea why... Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57437
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    - how to signal an app from video miniport driver? Hi I have a video miniport driver and i want to signal my application when somethign interesting happens inside that driver. What i want to do is sort of what in pure WDM land would be said to be as : "open the driver in asynchronous mode , and send an ioctl from app to the driver and inside the driver do not call IoCompleteRequest UNTIL sometihng interesting happens . In the aplication , keep waiting on the event associated with the particular asynchronous call." Now the problem following a similar approach in case of vidoe miniport driver is that videoport.sys manages a strictly synchronously serialized interface with all video miniport drivers where at the most ONE VRP can be outstanding at any given time with a video miniport driver. How can i manage to solve this problem ? Should i manage it through EVENT objects shared between user and kernel mode , and by passing the address of the user mode EVENT object to my driver in the call to EngDeviceIoControl ? what would be the best approach here thanks in advance regards Taha Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57436
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    - suggestion needed on win98 display driver Hello developers, I am working on a display driver for windows 98. it is supposed to support the rotation of screen of monitor. I mean to various angles like 90,180,270. While reading ddk documentation i came across various structures like pdevice and gdiinfo. I guess there must be some specific value needed to setup which does this. any hints ?? regards, Andrews Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57430
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    - What's the PScript5 driver's MAX resolution(DPI)? Hello. I'm working in PScript driver in Windows platform. I wanna know what's the PScript driver's MAX resolution(DPI)? I have ever set it to PPD up to 1200 DPI. What's the limit of DPI in PScript driver? Is it different between Win9x and, Win2000 or later? Then, what's the limit of each OS? Thanks in advance. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57428
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    - What's the PScript Driver's MAX resolution(DPI)? Hello. I'm working in PScript driver in Windows platform. I wanna know what's the PScript driver's MAX resolution(DPI)? I have ever set it to PPD up to 1200 DPI. What's the limit of DPI in PScript driver? Is it different between Win9x and, Win2000 or later? Then, what's the limit of each OS? Thanks in advance. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57427
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    - What's the PScript5 driver's MAX resolution(DPI)? Hello. I'm working in PScript Driver in Windows Platform. I wanna know what's the PScript driver's Max resolution? I have ever set it to PPD up to the 1200 DPI. Thanks in advance. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57425
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    - usbccgp.sys Hi, I read somewhere usbccgp.sys is the prefered parent driver than usbhub.sys for a multifunction device. I use usbhub.sys for our usb device on windows 2000 and now want to move it to windows XP. I modified the inf for windows 2000, by simply changed all reference to usbhub to usbccgp. I then use this inf file for the device installation on a Windows XP (we also used tested our driver with the old usbhub with this XP machine), and delete some related .inf file in windows\inf directory and the registry key in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\ location. However after inserting the device and suplied the new .inf file. Hardware Update Wizard in XP reports that there was a problem installing this hardware, the name is already in use as either a service name or a service display name. I suspect this is because of the previous installation of this device with usbhub.sys (the XP used with uncleaned registry entry). Is my analysis correct? You guys have any comments? Best Regards, Wayut Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57423
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    - Print monitor for intercepting print job Hello all, I want to intercept all the print jobs sent to a printer and pop up a dialog to ask user for confirmation (telling him page count, price, etc.) I searched on previous posts in the newsgroups and I think that the better solution was to implement a print-monitor. So now I've implemented a print monitor DLL (ConfirmMonitor.dll) that supporta a new kind of port that is redirected to another existing port. The target .DLL is loaded and initialized by my .DLL. Basically, all the calls are forwarder to the target monitor .DLL, except StartDocPort(). When StartDocPort is called in my DLL it pops up the confirmation dialog, if user cancels then StartDocPort returns FALSE, ... It works fine when target ports are local (LPT1:, nul:, pdf...). But it fails with network ports. In this case, I can send the print job, it arrives to the print server and it's shown in the queue, but it is NOT printed. - Then if I stop spooler in the client, the job is printed in the server and deleted from the queue. - If I send a second print-job, the first job is printed and the second remains in the queue. - In the print server, the real document name does not appear; instead it appears as "Remote low level document" (maybe another words, I've translated from spanish). The printer driver is the same in both computers. Any suggestion or idea? Another solution seems to be by using api hooking... Anyway I would like to now what's the problem in the print monitor DLL. Thanks, David D. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57416
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    - File systems and cylinders In my driver for a disk drive, I respond to IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY with typedef struct _DISK_GEOMETRY { LARGE_INTEGER Cylinders; = Number of sectors MEDIA_TYPE MediaType; RemovableMedia ULONG TracksPerCylinder; = 1 ULONG SectorsPerTrack; = 1 ULONG BytesPerSector; = Sector Size } DISK_GEOMETRY Now I wonder if TracksPerCylinder or SectorsPerTrack are used by FAT or NTFS for read/write optimizations. For instance, if I set TracksPerCylinder and/or SectorsPerTrack to 16, would the file systems try to read/write using buffers of (16*SectorSize) or so bytes? My goal is to make file systems send larger i/o buffers down to my drive. My question is whether DISK_GEOMETRY affects this in any way. Thanks, Steve -- Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57409
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    - IRP_MN_DEVICE_USAGE_NOTIFICATION In my driver for a disk drive, I'd like to prevent the drive from being used for special files. So I fail IRP_MN_DEVICE_USAGE_NOTIFICATION with STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL or STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED. The drive is not removable by itself, though handles removable media. Now if I go to System/Virtual Memory, I see my drive is listed as available target for a paging file. When I try to enable paging on my drive, I receive IRP_MN_DEVICE_USAGE_NOTIFICATION and fail it. Windows then says that it needs to reboot for the settings to take effect. Obviously Windows thinks that it still can enable paging after rebooting. Is there any way to exclude my drive from the list of available paging targets at all? Thanks, Steve -- Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57407
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    - bswap intrinsic? Is there an intrinsic to wrap the bswap x86 instruction. I have written a function to do this with inline assembler but I am wondering if an intrinsic wouldn't be a better solution. Regards, George. Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57406
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    - what io the Best method to capture all audio out? Hi, 1) I want to capture all the audio out on my machine . What i understand is that if the sound card on my machine provides "stereo Mix" capability AND I am not recording something on the physical line in of my sound card , then and only then i can capture the audio out going through the sound card using DirectSound or WaveIn API. what is the most reliable way to do this that should work on Win 9x+ and Win 2k+ , independent of whether the sound card supports stereo mix or whether something is also being recorded in the physical line in of the sound card? Is there some way to generically install an upper filter driver on top of the sound card driver and do this? what other option should help here? In the DDK i have a Microsoft Virtual Audio Driver , will that be of use ? There are multiple drivers inside the MSVAD driver directory, which one can i use with minimum amount of code change that should achieve my purpose ? and if i do need to change the code , which portion needs to be changed ? 2) I was going through the code of MSVAD and its architecture looks different from the standard WDM drivers ( particularly WDM USB client drivers ). No Read/Write Dispatchers etc. also Walter Oney's Book apparently does not delve into sound card drivers as well. What is the best resource to get more information about this , apart from the DDK ? thanks and regards Taha Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57401
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    - Handling SRB_FUNCTION_SHUTDOWN I am trying to see whether I can use SRB_FUNCTION_SHUTDOWN as a cue to start spindown of attached physical drives (both drives that are configured into virtual disks and those that are not) on a PCI RAID controller. Please clarify the following: 1) The DDK says "The system is being shut down. The request is passed to the miniport driver if CachesData was set to TRUE in the PORT_CONFIGURATION_INFORMATION data. The miniport driver can receive several of these notifications before all system activity is actually stopped; however, the last shutdown notification will occur after the last start I/O. Only the Function, PathId, TargetId and Lun fields are valid." How do I know which is the last start I/O? 2) Is there a mechanism that is available so that I can reliably spin down drives without having to spin them again because there was one more I/O? 3) In cases where I have a large number of drives, I will not be able to spinup the drives very quickly. We risk having command timeouts as the controller firmware tries to spinup drives that it just spun down. Any recommendation is appreciated. Thanks, Jacob Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57392
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    - To what device group does an intelligent frame grabber fit? Hi, I am just about to start reading the basics about windows drivers (I havent started my project...) just a question about something in general: I was wondering to which device class a pci frame grabber belongs to. I am talking about a PCI-card to which you can connect 4 or 6 industrial type CMOS cameras via some kind of LVDS bus or camera link. On the card, a dedicated processor is grabbing and evaluating the images (detection of shapes or patterns, datamatrix and OCR searches and so on). The card is supplying a video stream through the PCI bus to be displayed in a Window. Also single images can be grabbed. A user mode application communicates to the card, telling it parameters of the jobs it has to do, in which areas of the image it has to detect what and reading out the results... So I am wondering... do I have to write a driver for a PCI multifunction device? or a video streaming device? or a WIA device? or anything else? which of the samples supplied in the XP DDK would match my needs best? Anyway, I have to read a lot before starting... but maybe someone can give me a hint meanwhile. thomas Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57391
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    - (NT-)VDD blocks VDM: How to circumvent, and how to perform "secure" cleanup? Hello, I'm writing a VDD (for NT/2K/XP) for the first time, and I found the documentation is not the verbose as I would like it to be. I'm using the mechanism via DISPATCHCALL (assembler bytes 0xc4, 0xc4, 0x58, 0x02) emmitted into the source code, not via IN/OUT instruction (although, by testing, I found out the same applies for these, too). I faced the following problems: The DOS program in the DOS box calls a function of the VDD. Now, that function needs some time to perform the action. As long as the VDD function has not returned, the DOS box is completely blocked. I cannot even issue a Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Break) to stop the program. This is very bad with programs which need to communicate very much with the VDD: I found out it is almost impossible to stop the DOS mode program at all (other than closing the whole DOS window). Another problem I faced is the following: I want to know when the DOS mode program quits, to close the "access handle" the DOS program obtained from me, that is, to do some cleanup if the DOS program forgot to do this itself (for example, if it unexpectedly crashed). Anyway, I'm not sure how to do this reliably. Currently, I use VDDInstallUserHook() to install a Block handler, that is, I am informed if the NTVDM is blocked. I found out that this happens if the DOS program quits. Anyway, is this really a reliable (and a recommended) way? First of all, I thought installing a create and a termination handler with the same function would be better, as I could find out if it is exactly the DOS program which obtained the handler which is quit. Anyway, as the VDD is started with RegisterModule (0xc4, 0xc4, 0x58, 0x00) from the DOS program, I do not "see" the creation of the DOS program, so I do not know for which PCB to wait for. Can anyone help me here? Thank you, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/ Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57383
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    - VPC shot me in the ankle My development environment is crippled right now and I'm forced to use VPC 2004 instead of a target computer. I've run into a problem that has caused me a few hours of trouble and I've gotten down to the issue finally. It seems that VPC is not quite as faithful as I had hoped, or maybe there is a race in my code that simply did not show up on hardware: In the File system filter example, at the end of DriverEntry after the DO_DEVICE_INITIALIZING flag is cleared, I had assumed that it was now ok to access the file system. In my code, based on this example, after clearing the flag I created/accessed a particular directory to do some work. In the hardware version, this always worked fine, in the VPC however I reach the point of clearing DO_DEVICE_INITIALIZING long before I've seen the system drives set up and consequently my fiddling with the directory is failing. So is this a problem with VPC, or more likely have I misunderstood the significance of DO_DEVICE_INITIALIZING. If the latter, how do I know when all the file systems have been set up and are now safe to access? -- Gak - Finecats Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57374
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    - Need help in Print Driver Plug-in for Windows NT4 Hi, I'm trying to insert username, hostname, document name, printer name, driver name, custom and priority into the print job stream from my renderer plug-in dll. I realize that there are APIs available for me to gather these info if my plug-in is in user mode. That's why I get it to work in W2K. However, the APIs are not available in kernel mode, at which my renderer plug-in is invoked. I can't find any equivalent APIs supported in Kernel mode from the DDK library. I try to collect the info from the UI plug-in(which is in user mode) and pass the info to the renderer plug-in. However, if the user does not open the printer properties page, the UI plug-in will not be invoked. Are there other ways to get the info from kernel mode? Is it possible to invoke the UI plug-in from the renderer plug-in and let the plug-ins communicate? Is language monitor a possible route to explore? Suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks, Anthony Tag: Printer driver-newbie question Tag: 57372

Hi,
This forum is way beyond a question such as this, but here goes:
First, I should state that I don't know jack about networking. Anyway, if I
develop a printer driver for XP, most likely using the Unidriver
approach...and it works fine as a local printer, can I also expect it to work
on a network? In other words, is a network printer driver different than a
local printer driver? The printer has a serial or USB interface, not
ethernet.
If my question is too vague and shows my ignorance, maybe someone can direct
me to some good educational material?

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Re: Printer driver-newbie question by spider

spider
Wed Jan 12 19:59:28 CST 2005

A printer driver for Windows generates printer cmds only, it doesn't
handle data communication stuffs. Your unidriver based printer driver
will work with USB/serial/parallel/network ports. Microsoft supports
various port monitors for such ports. Don't worry about that.

Rock wrote:
> Hi,
> This forum is way beyond a question such as this, but here goes:
> First, I should state that I don't know jack about networking.
Anyway, if I
> develop a printer driver for XP, most likely using the Unidriver
> approach...and it works fine as a local printer, can I also expect it
to work
> on a network? In other words, is a network printer driver different
than a
> local printer driver? The printer has a serial or USB interface, not

> ethernet.
> If my question is too vague and shows my ignorance, maybe someone can
direct
> me to some good educational material?

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Re: Printer driver-newbie question by Vipin

Vipin
Wed Jan 12 23:03:25 CST 2005

It is the job of port monitor not of the printer driver.

"Rock" <Rock@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0BE4FC28-C3B0-4CA7-B16D-58E8BDADB998@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> This forum is way beyond a question such as this, but here goes:
> First, I should state that I don't know jack about networking. Anyway, if
> I
> develop a printer driver for XP, most likely using the Unidriver
> approach...and it works fine as a local printer, can I also expect it to
> work
> on a network? In other words, is a network printer driver different than
> a
> local printer driver? The printer has a serial or USB interface, not
> ethernet.
> If my question is too vague and shows my ignorance, maybe someone can
> direct
> me to some good educational material?

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