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    - Can not install Ergonomic Keyboard driver Recently purchased MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard. Driver installation gets started then aborts due to not enough disk resource. I have GBs! Have cleared out all temp files, but can not determine where .exe is trying to execute from. No quota's established, and have tried downloading device driver from the net with the same result. Any thoughts or has anyone struck the incident before and solved it? J Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95554
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    - MS Certification Practice Exams FREE Demonstration Exams Goto: www.wswexams.com Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95551
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    - Errors in the Printer Driver when building Hi Guys! Good day! I am currently developing a printer driver based on the samples provided in the WDK. I was able to build and integrate a TIFF library so that my output will be in TIFF rather than in Bitmap. My problem now is that I am trying to put a custom property sheet in the printer driver but i am getting these errors (see error snippet). I have already included the required headers for the property sheet (see header snippet) but I am still getting these errors. I am building the code using the Windows XP checked Build Environment provided in the WDK. Any ideas? Thank you! ********Error snippet*********** errors in directory c:\winddk\3790~1.183\src\print\oemdll\redmapprinter c:\winddk\3790.1830\src\print\oemdll\redmapprinter\oemui.h(39) : error C2061: sy ntax error : identifier 'POEMCUIPPARAM' c:\winddk\3790.1830\src\print\oemdll\redmapprinter\oemui.h(40) : error C2061: sy ntax error : identifier 'IPrintOemDriverUI' Compiling - enable.cpp for i386 Compiling - generating code... for i386 Building Library - c:\winddk\3790~1.183\src\print\oemdll\i386\redmapprinter.lib for i386 LIB : error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'objchk_wxp_x86\i386\devmode.obj' BUILD: Compile errors: not linking c:\winddk\3790~1.183\src\print\oemdll\redmapp rinter directory BUILD: Done 8 files compiled - 1 Warning - 2 Errors 1 library built - 1 Error C:\WINDDK\3790~1.183\src\print\oemdll\RedmapPrinter> ******Header Snippet******* #include <STDDEF.H> #include <STDLIB.H> #include <OBJBASE.H> #include <STDARG.H> #include <STDIO.H> #include <WINDEF.H> #include <WINERROR.H> #include <WINBASE.H> #include <WINGDI.H> #include <WINDDI.H> #include <WINSPOOL.H> #include <TCHAR.H> #include <EXCPT.H> #include <ASSERT.H> #include <PRSHT.H> #include "COMPSTUI.H" #include <WINDDIUI.H> #include <PRINTOEM.H> #include <PRCOMOEM.H> Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95550
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    - AddPort fails when others are logged on Here's the situation. I'm running XP and I've got two users with admin privileges, call them A and B. 0. Boot system. 1. Log on user A. 2. Switch user (but don't log off A) to user B. 3. Run the printer driver installer which was provided (with source code) from a third party. Result: The call to AddPort() fails with Windows Error 50 (ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED). The call which fails is: AddPort(NULL, NULL, lpMonitorName) One wrinkle is that it appears to depend on who first logged on. For example, if I add the following step 2.5, the error does not occur: 2.5. Switch user (but don't log off B) back to user A. Another wrinkle is that I have a unicode-based version of the installer which has the same problem but returns a different error code: 5 (ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED). The third party claims that this is a limitation of the AddPort call, and that the question should be addressed to Microsoft. But wouldn't that imply that, in general, if an admin user is logged on, it's not possible for any subsequent admin user to log on and install a printer driver? I wouldn't expect that behavior. Thanks for any explanations or clarifications. Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95548
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    - Use Printer Offline In the spooler Window for a printer (any port connection) you can see the online/offline status of the printer. Especially when using USB or TCP/IP I noticed Windows is also setting "Use Printer Offline" which is also a setting in the Printer menue and is a sticking state (at least sometimes). I have three problems. 1. Can I programmatically change this on or off? 2. Why is this state sometimes changing and sometimes not? 3. When I am connecting to a print server via a Language Monitor / Port Monitor for the print server it happens all the time that on reboot the "Use Printer Offline" is sticky and can't be reset. You have to attach the print server manually in the Port setup again to fix this problem. What do I have to do to fix this? I hope someone wil get me some answers on these questions. Thanks in advance. -- \Manfred Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95537
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    - Developing for multi core CPUs Hi, i wondered wether it is possible to determine on which CPU a driver is loaded on a multi core system. The intention behind this is that i want to have a whole CPU on my own to get highest performance and avoid interfering with the rest of the system. Regards Max Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95521
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    - USB Device Interface Hi, I'm writing NT Service that listens device notifications. I am subscribing on DEV_BROADCAST_DEVICEINTERFACE notifications. After USB (flash drive or HDD) is connected, I get DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL notification. The notification contains the string \\?\Description{GUID}. I find the same string in the registry HKLM\CONFIG\...\DeviceClasses\... But I cannot know how to get its drive letter? Any help would be appreciated. Ilia Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95520
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    - Windows Logo Program Requirements (V. 2.2) Hello, I have to study how to obtain Windows XP x86 Logo and Windows Server 2003 x86 Logo. For a Windows Vista Logo, I would look at the Windows Logo Program 3.0 for which there is a nice Excel file. I looked at the Windows Logo Program 2.2 but I didn't find such an Excel file :( If somebody can tell me where I can find it, it would be great! Thank you!! Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95518
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    - How to comunicate with Filter Driver Hi all, I have made a filter driver, I have implemented all MJ functions, but now I have a problem. I want to read / write from my monitor application to my filter driver for get some data, but how can I recognize inside my filter driver if IRP_MJ_DEVICE_CONTROL, IRP_MJ_READ, IRP_MJ_WRITE is comming from my monitor application or is external and so the IRP must be passed to the next node? Best Regards. Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95517
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    - ATAPort It was rumor floating around that MS planned to re-introduce the ATAPort on this WinHECâ?¦did it happen? Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95516
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    - Crash Dump Analysis Hello All, i have posted a query regarding the crash few days ago. Yakub suggested me to do !wdfdevicequeues for seeing if there are any pending requests. I did the following for the serial driver. i opened the hyper terminal and here is the output for above command. kd> !wdfdevicequeues 0x7d569a48 Dumping queues of WDFDEVICE 0x7d569a48 ===================================== Number of queues: 4 ---------------------------------- Queue: 1 (!wdfqueue 0x7d5259e0) Parallel, Power-managed, PowerOn, Can accept, Can dispatch, ExecutionLevelDispatch, SynchronizationScopeDevice Number of driver owned requests: 2 !WDFREQUEST 0x7d52e510 !IRP 0x82817b48 !WDFREQUEST 0x7d83c180 !IRP 0x822bd490 Number of waiting requests: 0 Number of driver owned cancelable requests: 2 !WDFREQUEST 0x7d52e510 !IRP 0x82817b48 !WDFREQUEST 0x7d83c180 !IRP 0x822bd490 EvtIoRead: (0xaad056a0) usbservista!SerialEvtIoRead EvtIoWrite: (0xaad05940) usbservista!SerialEvtIoWrite EvtIoDeviceControl: (0xaacffab0) usbservista! SerialEvtIoDeviceControl EvtIoInternalDeviceControl: (0xaad00010) usbservista! SerialEvtIoInternalDeviceControl EvtIoCanceledOnQueue: (0xaacfef80) usbservista! SerialEvtCanceledOnQueue ---------------------------------- Queue: 2 (!wdfqueue 0x7d5247f8) Manual, Power-managed, PowerOn, Can accept, Can dispatch, ExecutionLevelDispatch, SynchronizationScopeDevice Number of driver owned requests: 0 Number of waiting requests: 0 EvtIoCanceledOnQueue: (0xaacfef80) usbservista! SerialEvtCanceledOnQueue ---------------------------------- Queue: 3 (!wdfqueue 0x7d5237f8) Manual, Power-managed, PowerOn, Can accept, Can dispatch, ExecutionLevelDispatch, SynchronizationScopeDevice Number of driver owned requests: 0 Number of waiting requests: 0 EvtIoCanceledOnQueue: (0xaacfef80) usbservista! SerialEvtCanceledOnQueue ---------------------------------- Queue: 4 (!wdfqueue 0x7d522a88) Manual, Power-managed, PowerOn, Can accept, Can dispatch, ExecutionLevelDispatch, SynchronizationScopeDevice Number of driver owned requests: 0 Number of waiting requests: 0 EvtIoCanceledOnQueue: (0xaacfef80) usbservista! SerialEvtCanceledOnQueue I closed the hypterminal then i get the following output for the above command. kd> !wdfdevicequeues 0x7d569a48 Dumping queues of WDFDEVICE 0x7d569a48 ===================================== Number of queues: 4 ---------------------------------- Queue: 1 (!wdfqueue 0x7d5259e0) Parallel, Power-managed, PowerOn, Can accept, Can dispatch, ExecutionLevelDispatch, SynchronizationScopeDevice Number of driver owned requests: 0 Number of waiting requests: 0 Number of driver owned cancelable requests: 1 !WDFREQUEST 0x00000034 !IRP 0x82817b48 Failed to get a pointer @ 0xfffffff4: invalid address, or memory is paged out? c0000005 Exception in D:\WINDDK\6000\bin\x86\wdfkd.wdfdevicequeues debugger extension. PC: 7c812a5b VA: 00000000 R/W: 1003f Parameter: 00000000 im not able to figure out what is going wrong. Can any one help me in analyzing the problem. Thank You. Regards, uba Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95515
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    - chkinf bug: No )'s in the path so no DirectX in the path Hi, Running chkinf gives me: \Utilities\Bin\x86 was unexpected at this time. This is part of a DirectX install which adds the following to the path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (April 2007)\Utilities\Bin\x86 I'm guessing the problem is this "for" line (about line 27): for %%I in (%PATH%) do ( if exist %%~fsI\chkinf.bat ( set PLibPath=-I%%I goto runit ) The "if" may become a problem too. I worked around the problem by modifying the path variable to not have that directory in the path. I did this by: 1. Typing "echo %path%" 2. Copying the path to notepad 3. Deleting the problematic directory 4. Coping the new text for the path variable 5. typing "path=" followed by pasting the new list of directories I'm not sure, but it appears another work around is to add the chkinf directory to the beginning of the path variable. I'm not sure where to report this issue, and my quick check doesn't show any documentation on this issue. I hope this is the appropriate way to get this fixed or at least documented. If not, please advise me. Thanks, Drew Daniels Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95514
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    - USB communication hangs Hello NG, I am currently testing our self-developed USB device driver. It works fine on most machines. However on a few machines it seems as if a reading operation which has been passed down the stack does not return. Meaning the completion routine is never called and therefore the IRP is never completed. As my application is performing synchronous IO-operation on the device my application hangs up and can be ended only by killing it through the task manager. I found this strange driver behaviour by implementing several debug traces in a checked version of the driver and watching that traces with debug view. Debugging the driver with WinDBG also did not bring anything new. Here a short code snippet how I pass down the IRP to the lower driver: //*************************************************************************************************************************************** pNextStack=IoGetNextIrpStackLocation(pIrp); pNextStack->MajorFunction=IRP_MJ_INTERNAL_DEVICE_CONTROL; pNextStack->Parameters.Others.Argument1=(PVOID)pUrb; pNextStack->Parameters.DeviceIoControl.IoControlCode=IOCTL_INTERNAL_USB_SUBMIT_URB; IoSetCompletionRoutine(pIrp, ReadCompletion, pReadContext, TRUE, TRUE, TRUE); IoMarkIrpPending(pIrp); ntStatus=IoCallDriver(pDeviceInfo->pNextDeviceObject, pIrp); return STATUS_PENDING; //*************************************************************************************************************************************** What can be the reason for not getting the IRP completed? Any ideas? Thanks in advance Benji Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95512
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    - Disabling Devices by calling Setupapi.dll, or Converting Devcon to C# Hello group, My C# app needs to disable and re-enable devices. I did some research and found that I could do exactly what I wanted by using Devcon from the DDK. Devcon disable =net @ROOT\POSNATMP\0001 Now, the next challenge is getting this to work in my app. Devcon comes with its C++ source. I see that the function makes SetupDi* calls to the Setupapi.dll library. I am not quite sure how to do this in C#. I followed Vladimir Afanasyev articles and got a little closer. I can enumerate the devices and properties. Afanasyev mentions, in the user comments, that you can disable devices as well but does not provide sample code. This means I am much closer but still not quite able to toggle the device drivers. In sum, I am looking for the answer to one of three questions. 1) Does the .Net Framework 2 provide a way to disable/enable devices? 2) If it does not, what is the best way to convert Devcon C++ sample to a C# app? 3) Alternatively, what could I add to Vladimir Afanasyev's code to disable/enable devices? Thanks in advance, J Wolfgang Goerlich Related Links: Microsoft Article 311272, The DevCon command-line utility functions as an alternative to Device Manager http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 .NET - Diving into System Programming - Part 1, 2, 3 By Vladimir Afanasyev http://www.codeproject.com/cs/system/divingsysprog1.asp http://www.codeproject.com/cs/system/divingsysprog2.asp http://www.codeproject.com/cs/system/divingsysprog2.asp Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95502
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    - Why is IoStatus.Information is so sensitive? In a completion routine for a (pending) IRP for writing numBytes (coming via DeviceIoControl), I am setting the IoStatus block before calling IoCompleteRequest(): irp->IoStatus.Status = STATUS_SUCCESS; irp->IoStatus.Information = numBytes; IoCompleteRequest(irp, IO_NO_INCREMENT); The strange thing is that if I set irp->IoStatus.Information to the actual numBytes that were written (several hundreds), the driver doesn't like it... Strange things happen like access violation etc. But... if I set irp->IoStatus.Information to a hard coded value of 4, all is well. Why? Isn't irp->IoStatus.Information supposed to actually relay back (to the caller of DeviceIoControl) any number desired? (in this case the number of bytes actually written, just like file I/O for example. I tried to find some documentation about the *purpose* and *intended use* of IoStatus.Information but all I could find is: "This is set to a request-dependent value. For example, on successful completion of a transfer request, this is set to the number of bytes transferred. If a transfer request is completed with another STATUS_XXX, this member is set to zero." Now... I *am* returning STATUS_SUCCESS, so what's wrong with returning a number greater than 4? Thanks, Don Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95485
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    - mirror driver and service in multiple sessions Hi all, I developed a mirror driver that is able to map its framebuffer into a usermode process' context. (The usermode app does this by calling ExtEscape on the mirror driver). This is all working fine but what i really want is a seperate service .exe and be able to map a specific session's mirror driver framebuffer into that service app. Obviously the problem here is that the server .exe and the session the mirror driver is in are probably different. I was thinking about using some kind of intermediate/broker process in every session but I'd really like to avoid ending up mapping the mirror driver's framebuffer into this intermediate/broker process and then somehow send it to the service app. So in other words: i want to be able to call a particular mirror driver's DrvEscape function so that it can map the framebuffer into the calling process (my service in this case). Thanks in advance! Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95474
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    - New to driver development Hi, We are developing a USB thermal printer driver. We were able to install our printer using the sample codes from the DDK but how do we issue commands when we do the actual printing? I mean how do we issue the ESC sequences that are sent to the printer? Where do we write the code for this purpose? Regards, Samir Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95470
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    - Pagefile and FSCTL_QUERY_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS Is FSCTL_QUERY_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS just for the first pagefile on the boot volume or does it also work for additional pagefiles? I am trying to interpret the following comment by Tony Mason: "That is why FSCTL_QUERY_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS only works on the boot drive's paging file (the dump driver needs the blocks to dump it)." http://www.osronline.com/showThread.cfm?link=40066. Regards, George. Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95458
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    - Virtual network adapter ? Hello, I'm willing to write a virtual network adapter, which won't be connected to any real hardware, but will be "driven" by a running application: packet sent to this adapter shall be read by this application, and the app sometimes send packets to the adapter which are to be dispatched on whoever read on the specified port. The problem being, I'm new to driver developpement. Thus I have a couple of questions: 1 - I've installed the latest windows DDK, is ti correct ? I've seen another framework, but it seems to be vista only out of the box, right ? 2 - I'm looking at the "netvmini" sample provided by microsoft, since it also create a virtual network adapter, again, am I correct ? I'm a little lost between all teh different NDIS drivers types. 3 - What is the best way to make my driver and the running application communicate ? Ioctl control, shared memory, ... ? And what function in the driver should I look at on msdn for receiving/sending packet ? (aka: where in the driver should I put my logic for reading packets from the application, and sending the received packet to the application). Thanks for any answer -- Lepidosteus / Vianney Devreese mail: lepidosteus at gmail dot com url: http://lepidosteus.com Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95452
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    - Create a virtual network adapter ? Hello, I need to create a driver for a virtual network adapter, the prupose being to allow softwares to communicate on it asif it was a real connection, while in fact it is controlled by a running application (packets sent to it are read by this application, and the same application sometimes needs to send packets "trough" this interface to answer). I'm new to driver coding, so I have some questions: 1 - I'm using the latest Windows DDK to develop this, is it correct ? (I've seen another framework for vista drivers, but I guess it isn't backward compatible out of the box ?) 2 - to do this, I'm studying the "netvmini" sample provided by microsoft, since it creates a virtual adapter that, well, do nothing. Am I correct ? (I'm a little lost between the different kind of NDIS drivers) 3 - How to make it write and read its packet to an application ? What I would like to know is both the best way to share data between them (shared memory ? ioctl control ?), and the two "base" fonction I should look at for sending/receiving packets (I've found no how to, so all I can do is study the api for this function). Thanks a lot for any anwser -- Lepidosteus / Vianney Devreese mail: lepidosteus at gmail dot com Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95451
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    - WDK 6000 build env error "error '-f' is not recognized as an internal or external command" First thanks a lot to Doron Holan & Eliyas Yakub for your help. I'm moved into WDK 6000 with KMDF 1.5 ,then the Common buffer allocation works well ,if failed ,I can see the yellow "!" in my device manager.But there is a small problem between my building progress.Followwing is the error log: ************************************* errors in directory l:\work\file4drvtest\kerneldrv\src l:\work\file4drvtest\kerneldrv\src\generating code... : error '-f' is not recognized as an internal or external command, ************************************* And my build command window log: *********************************** L:\Work\File4DrvTest\KernelDrv\Src>build -ceg BUILD: Compile and Link for x86 BUILD: Loading e:\winddk\6000\build.dat... BUILD: Computing Include file dependencies: BUILD: Start time: Sat Jun 02 15:22:57 2007 BUILD: Examining l:\work\file4drvtest\kerneldrv\src directory for files to compi le. l:\work\file4drvtest\kerneldrv\src - 7 source files (4,550 lines) BUILD: Saving e:\winddk\6000\build.dat... BUILD: Compiling l:\work\file4drvtest\kerneldrv\src directory _NT_TARGET_VERSION SET TO WINXP Precompiling - precomp.h Compiling - adxdev.rc Compiling - adxdev.c Compiling - init.c Compiling - isrdpc.c Compiling - read.c Compiling - write.c Compiling - generating code... Compiling - generating code... errors in directory l:\work\file4drvtest\kerneldrv\src l:\work\file4drvtest\kerneldrv\src\generating code... : error '-f' is not recogn ized as an internal or external command, BUILD: Linking l:\work\file4drvtest\kerneldrv\src directory _NT_TARGET_VERSION SET TO WINXP Linking Executable - objfre_wxp_x86\i386\adx16xx.sys BUILD: Finish time: Sat Jun 02 15:23:00 2007 BUILD: Done 11 files compiled - 1 Error - 4550 LPS 1 executable built ************************************ And the followwing is my "sources" file context: ************************************ TARGETNAME=Adx16xx TARGETTYPE=DRIVER KMDF_VERSION=1 INF_NAME=Adx16xx MISCFILES=$(OBJ_PATH)\$(O)\$(INF_NAME).inf NTTARGETFILES= TARGETLIBS=$(TARGETLIBS) \ $(DDK_LIB_PATH)\ntstrsafe.lib PRECOMPILED_INCLUDE=precomp.h PRECOMPILED_PCH=precomp.pch PRECOMPILED_OBJ=precomp.obj #C_DEFINES = $(C_DEFINES) -DASSOC_WRITE_REQUEST_WITH_DMA_TRANSACTION=1 SOURCES= AdxDev.rc \ AdxDev.c \ Init.c \ IsrDpc.c \ Read.c \ Write.c # # Generate WPP tracing code # $(SOURCES) -- run software preprocessor on files listed in SOURCES # -km -- use kernel mode # -func -- define function we'll use for tracing # This would map all TraceEvents calls to # DoTraceMessage. # RUN_WPP= $(SOURCES) \ -km \ -func:TraceEvents(LEVEL,FLAGS,MSG,...) \ -gen:{km-WdfDefault.tpl}*.tmh ***************************************** Can you give some suggestions to aviod the error? Thanks ! Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95449
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    - Oemui and Oemuni...what's the difference? Hi, I am currently working on trying to convert an oemuni image printing driver to a user-mode driver instead of a kernel-mode driver for use in Windows Vista. First question, is there any reason an oemuni driver cannot be implemented as a user-mode driver? I've found these two resources on conversion ([url]http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/win32-pdriver-ktou.html[/url] and [url]http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms801104.aspx[/url]) and have tried converting along those guidelines, but am still unable to compile my driver in user mode with the ddk. Second question, is there a major difference/what is the difference between oemuni drivers and oemui drivers? I was considering porting the oemuni driver to oemui, since oemui is already compiled under user mode, but I'm not sure if that's even possible. Again, just for reference, I am working on a print driver that saves the printed document as a sequenced image file (which has been tested in Windows XP) and am trying to port it to a user-mode driver for use in Windows Vista (since vista does not allow kernel-mode drivers). Any replies/references/etc are appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read this thread! Nuvious P.S. I am working for a company that produces this software as a FREERWARE utility, so I am unable to post any code due to legal restrictions. Again, any help is appreciated. -- Nuvious ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via http://www.codecomments.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95443
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    - storport requests queue Hi I am developing a storport mini-port driver for Vista and I got a strange problem â?? the storport queues not more than 20 requests against my mini-port driver; I generated different workloads and under heavy load I can see that my mini-driver has 20 outstanding requests practically all the time during the test Any idea how this limitation gets imposed? TIA Andrew Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95439
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    - How to get debug prints in WinDbg from Vista I'm trying to debug my property page provider application on 32bit variant of Vista Ultimate by using WinDbg with a serial connection to try and capture the snapshots being sent by the "OutputDebugString" calls, but nothing comes out to the command window! The same application works just fine under Windows XP, Server 2003, and Windows 2000. I've inserted the "IsDebuggerPresent" and "DebugBreak" function calls only to learn that the former returns a FALSE to the local variable receiving the value when the breakpoint is hit on the latter call. What isn't clear is why the debug connection is established and control is passed to the debugger, yet "IsDebuggerPresent" returns a false and "OutputDebugString" calls are not routed through the connection? I've tried setting the "Debug Print File" as defined in http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=295, but to no avail. Is there another trick to getting debug print statements out of Vista to WinDbg that I'm missing? Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95434
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    - Property sheets in Printer Preferences I have a problem with a property page in the printer preferences. I am setting a handle to my current printer in the creation of the property page. Page.lParam = (long)((OEMUIPSPARAM*)(pPSUIInfo->lParamInit))->hPrinter; When I open this page I save this printer handle in case WM_INITDIALOG: // OpenPrinter hPrinter = (HANDLE)((PROPSHEETPAGE *)lParam)->lParam; VERBOSE(PRNTEXT("Printer handle [%x]\n"), hPrinter); UserData.hPrinter = hPrinter; PUserData1 = &UserData; SetLastError(0); if ((PUserData = (CBMYUSERDATA*)SetWindowLong(hDlg,GWL_USERDATA,(DWORD)PUserData1)) == 0) { dwError = GetLastError(); } Now when I get into the case case WM_NOTIFY: it works to retrieve this printer handle and work with it, but when I press a button on the dialog it goes into case WM_COMMAND: and my handle is false! What am I doing wrong here? I need the access to the printer handle to use GetPrinterData and SetPrinterData. Any help appreciated. Thanks, -- \Manfred Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95430
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    - kernel memory hog There is a certain well know virus/spyware protection company, (not mcaffe, not symantec) that uses a gigantic chunk (around 78 MB ) of paged memory in the kernel and NEVER relinquishes it. If this stuff is installed on a computer, my software , which uses a substantial chunk of paged memory from time to time will simply not function. So far I've not gotten anyone's attention beyond the 1st line of technical support The unnamed company is much bigger than me, what can be done????? I'd hate to think about forcing my driver to load early, grabbing what it needs before this hog gets it snout in the trough ....That would result in 2 hogs with the expected results ... blah blah. -- Gak - Finecats Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95427
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    - strange things about NET_BUFFER_LIST hi everybody I write a miniport driver under Vista base on the sample rtlnwifi, and I crypt the out data. What I do like this: 1, get the NET_BUFFER from NET_BUFFER_LIST 2, get the MDL from this NET_BUFFER 3, get the data address of the MDL 4, so I copy all the data of the NET_BUFFER_LIST to a buffer use this method, and I crypt the data within the buffer(size of data not changed) 5, at last I copy the data back to NET_BUUFER_LIST, send it out through the NIC on the other PC which has Vista on it, I decrypt the data. The problem is: I share a fold, and copy some files in it, such as 123.txt or aaa.bmp, from PC1 to PC2, PC2 can get the file correctly, but the strange thing is that the files on PC1 are changed, even the fold is read only! aaa.bmp can not be recognized as BMP file, and the content of 123.txt which should be "123" also can not be recognized. It seems that when I crypt the data and copy it back to NBL, I also change the content of the file(or the content in memory, because after I reboot, the files are be OK). But I think that the NBL which my miniport get from the protocol driver should can be modified, it should not changed the content of any file or other things. Sorry for my poor English. -- Arthur Tu best regards Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95417
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    - Does devcon.exe work at all? I am trying to use devcon.exe to ease the pain of repetitively re- installing a device driver under development for test & debug purposes. The device driver I am developing is based on MSVA (i.e. has no real hardware). When I attemp invoking it like this: devcon.exe update msvad.inf I get the error message: "devcon.exe: Invalid use of update." It seems that it also requires hwid as the second parameter? So I typed: devcon.exe hwids * but all I get is: "No matching devices found." What could be not matching in the wild card * ????????? What does devcon.exe do? Does it work at all? Or am I so sleepless and tired that I can't even get a clue how to use a simple tool like this? Thanks, Don P.S. If there is another way to re-install a driver (specified by .inf and a path to the actual location of the .sys driver file) without the annoying required mouse clicking on the update driver wizard, I would appreciate describing it here. Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95415
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    - Spooler does not inform the Port Monitor about errors I have compiled the XPSDrv demo targeting Windows Vista and run it on Windows XP. It fails printing some documents causing the applicaitons to hang when some standard print ports are used. I'm writing a custom print monitor grounding on the DDK example. Both the redmon and my monitor receive a premature EndDoc -- after a single 22-byte write is made. The following error is recorded in the System Event Log: " The document Microsoft Word - XPSDrv_Config-1.doc owned by valentin failed to print on printer XPSDrv Sample Driver. Data type: RAW. Size of the spool file in bytes: 405633. Number of bytes printed: 65577. Total number of pages in the document: 11. Number of pages printed: 0. Client machine: \\MERCURY. Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 2147549183 (0x8000ffff). " The same problem is observed when using RedMon -- it starts your application and delivers only 22 first bytes to it. There is no way to inform the application about failure since the monitor is not aware of it itself. I was trying getting error flag from job status retreived via GetJob in the EndDoc of my monitor -- The status is PRINTING for normally finished jobs and is additionally SPOOLING for the troublesome jobs. But but no error observed. Furthermore, I have also noticed that XPSDrv does not notify the printqueue. I have a monitor application, which logs all the activity in a printer's queue but it is silent on the XPS sample driver regardless of whether the job is printed sucessfully or fails. But that is another story. I'm sure that 1) XPSDrv must be repaired; and 2) threads must fail fast. The latter means that you should stop a task once one of it steps (which likely is a preconditioin for the subsequent stages) fails. I see no reason to invoke further processing from the monitor when printing fails and the output is incomplete, therefore. Thanks Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95414
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    - Device Setup Class Question Dear All, We're developing a scientific instrument which communicates via USB to transfer experimental procedures from the PC and stored results to the PC. Can anyone advise on what Device Setup Class this should go into? I can't see one but creating a custom setup class seems a like a big step for this one product (all the others are major groups of devices) We are using the Jungo system to do the comms, so we don't have a separate driver as such, just an inf file to tell Windows to use the Jungo driver when our instrument is connected. The instrument uses interrupt-mode transfers only. Thanks for your help. Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95412
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    - Is there a MS approved general purpose USB driver ? Hello MS team and group members, I'm searching for a general purpose USB driver approved (aka signed ) by MS that is available in Vista and/or XP and allows simple raw transfers to/from device endpoints, mainly bulk and control transfers but iso will be a nice addition. Is there such a beast included with ddk/sdk or I have to do it the hard way ? Best regards, Mircea CIocan Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95410
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    - composite device behavior of UVC device on Win98/ME/2000/XP? I found UVC device would be a multi-interface USB device. For example, interface 0 is for video control interface and interface 1 is for video stream interface. As I konw, multi-interface device will display composite device first, and then find driver for each interface. However, it seems that XP SP2 only query driver for interface 0 of UVC device after display composite device. It doesn't query driver for interface 1 of UVC device. If I plug in UVC device on WinME, it will query driver for interface 0 and 1 of UVC device after display composite device. If I plug in UVC device onWin2000, it doesn't display composite device. Why doesn't Win2000 find composite device first for UVC device? I think the behavior difference is a serious problem for developing UVC driver on these OS. For example, do I need to write different driver for each interface of UVC device on WinME? Do I need to handle multi-interface in one driver on Win2000? Best Regards Jack Huang Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95400
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    - What's the best way to develop UVC driver for Win98/ME/2000? Our device follows UVC spec. Microsoft provides standard driver usbvideo.sys for UVC device on Win XP SP2 or later I would develop the UVC driver for older OS such as Win98/ME/2000. USB Camera driver can be developed based on AVStream or USBCamd model. As I know, usbvideo.sys is a AVStream driver. AVStream driver needs new DirectX is insatalled. I am not sure whether this would be a issue for users of legacy OS. We already have developed the camera driver based on USBCAMD model for other PCam devices. I hope we can develop UVC driver based on our current driver. But I don't know whether any driver architecture limitation exists on USBCAMD model. Could anyone give me a suggestion? Best Regards Jack Huang Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95399
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    - Debugging for beginners I have just started to learn Video Capture device development. I have built and installed the testcap sample that comes with the DDK. It have tested it using AMCap and I can see the pretty test pattern (thanks Microsoft). My next step is to understand how the driver works. To do this, I would like to step-by-step the driver through a debugger. However, I am unsure how to attach the debugger to the driver - I knew when I was working with a WIA device I had to debug the WIA service. Does WDM work similarly? Or should I be attaching to AMCap? Is it possible to debug the driver on the same machine as it is running on - or do I need two computers connected by a cable? Any guidance on the simplest approach would be much appreciated. Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95389
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    - Software Publishing Certificate Certificate Authority You document KMCS_Walkthrough.doc says to purchase a â??Software Publisher Certificate from a commercial CA.â?? And â??For a list of SPC CAs, see â??Resourcesâ?? at the end of this paper.â?? There is no list of CAs in the Resources at the end of the paper. Later on your document says to go to http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/drvsign/crosscert.mspx â??This Web page includes: â?¢ A list of Root Authority cross-certificates. â?¢ A list of CAs that provide SPCs for kernel-mode code signing.â?? But again there is no list of CAs, but I will assume that the companies in the Cross-Certificate List are included in the CA list. I then picked VeriSign to investigate purchasing a â??Software Publisher Certificateâ??. But I cannot find this certificate available from this source. Why is this so hard? Please, tell me specifically what â??certificateâ?? or whatever to purchase in order to sign kernel mode drivers. On one of the examples in the document it says, â??Issued by: VeriSign Class 3 Code Signingâ??. So I went to VeriSign but the only information I could find says that this is for object signing for Internet Explorer, etc. Why is this so hard? Does VeriSign sell what I need or do I have to look elsewhere? Where should I look and what should I buy? The only mention of Digital Signing and Microsoft talks about Microsoft Authenticode to sign .exe, .cab, .dll, and .ocx. But, I want to sign a kernel mode driver. Is this the certificate or is there some other certificate? Why is this so hard? Also is there an updated document and web page that has correct information? Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95388
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    - How to share a common file in 2 different inf set? Hi, Based on the INF copyfiles directive describe in the link below, it seems that for files that is shared between 2 different inf driver sets, there is no way to ensure that the latest version of the file gets retain in the system since the COPYFLG_OVERWRITE_OLDER_ONLY flag is ignored by digitally signed sets. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms794560.aspx Does anyone knows of any way to safely share a common file between 2 different inf driver set, such that one can always ensure that the newest version of the file always gets retained by the system, no matter what the order of installation was? Or is it not possible to share a common file between 2 inf driver set that is digitally signed? Thanks KS Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95382
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    - RSS on windows Vista and IM driver Hi , I am working on IM driver. My IM driver creates ARP requests,If the underlying miniport driver (this IM driver bound to) supports receive side scaling , what additional steps IM driver should take before sending the packet and after receiving the packet ? Thanks Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95381
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    - How to load KMDF SAMPLER driver in Windows Vista i have compiled the KMDF sample driver . but i unable to load the this driver any body please help on the same. i following this step. 1. building the echo driver in Windows Vista build environment for x86 . 2. Copy the all echo.sys,echo.inf,WdfCoinstaller010007.dll file in one directory. 3. usin the Add new hardware wizard i give the above directory. 4. it will copy .sys file into the system32/driver direcotry. but i will through the Error Code 37. if any body the information related for the same please give. thanks in Advance sulabh Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95378
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    - WDK 6001 driver is not loading the Windows Vista Hello All, i have build the sample driver which is available in WDK 6001. i am using the Vista checked build environment for x86 system . i have compiled and build driver properly but i unable to the load this driver in Windows Vista operating system . In the installation disk i have copied the echo.sys file, echo.inf file and WdfCoinstaller010007.dll file. but windows given the error message 37. if any body know please tell me. Thanks in Advance. sulabh Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95375
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    - WDK Kit 6000 for Windows Vista Hello All, please tell me where i will get the WDK 6000 kit for building the KMDF driver for Windows Vista. thanks Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95372
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    - File system Driver: File Properties window problem. hello, I am developing a file system driver right now. I am successfully able to create file and directory. There is a problem after that. After creating the file when i right click on file my driver hangs, The request IRP_MN_QUERY_DIRECTORY comes repeatedly. I dont know how and why it is coming continuously? please help me to solve this problem, if you didn't understand my question completely then please ask me, thanks in advance, regards, Hitesh Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95365
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    - accessing physical memory mapped to a pci board I would like to view physical memory that is mapped to a pci board. (I am writing a driver for the board for a real-time OS and I would like to see what data is in the board's registers after a successful startup in Windows to help recreate that in the other OS.) I tried using a tool called WinIO to try to create a virtual address to that physical memory. It works for both read and write of some addresses, like 0x9FFF0. However, the resource the board uses is address at 0xE8100000 which I cannot pick up with the tool. I have confirmed that address in windows device manager and in the BAR0 entry in the table that the PCI board registers with windows. Is there some protection in Windows that I must circumvent to view that memory? I am running XP SP2. The board's driver is installed and the board is functioning properly in windows while I am trying to read the memory. I have 1 GB of physical RAM and a swap file of 1.5 GB. (the memory address that PCI board is at appears to be about 3.8 GB offset (0xE8100000)... I'm not sure why it is able to have an address that is beyond the sum of the physical and swap memory.) I appreciate any thoughts you have. Thanks, John Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95364
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    - [WIA] Minidriver (UMDF/WDM), usbscan (32/64 bit) and certification Hello, In order to use a scanner on Windows XP/2003/Vista, we can't use an UMDF driver, can we? So, we have to start from the scanner minidriver sample "wiascanr", which is a WDM driver. Is it ok for Vista? In the WIA architecture, we have to make a minidriver (user mode) but we need an USB driver (kernel mode) for instance... Is "usbscan.sys" always correct? And for a x64-based version of Vista? Finally, in order to have a "Microsoft certification", are "wiascanr" and "usbscan" usable? Thank you very much!! Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95362
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    - How to write a virtual com port driver on XP or later? I would write a virtual com port driver on XP or later. Is there any sample code for this? or What should be the start point to study com port driver? Best Regards Jack Huang Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95359
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    - Developing a device driver for a WiFi device Hi... I need to interface a WiFi device that defines its own protocols with a Windows PC. I've done some Googling and a found a set of Windows WiFi APIs that I think I can use. Do I need to build a device driver? ( The device will never interact directly with the kernel ) And what would be best IDE to use? Thanks in advance... Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95358
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    - Job opportunities Hi everyone, My employer has opened or is about to open several positions. Four of them require skills and proficiency in Windows driver writing, especially in Network and Storage drivers. Thus there are great chances that the potential candidates are readers of this newsgroup (and a few other ones. I am cross-posting). I know this group is not made for that purpose and I apologize in advance to those of you who are not interested (sorry for the cross postings too, but the skills we are searching are quite hard to find, I want to maximize our chances to find the right future colleagues). Two positions are opened in Paris, France and two will be opened in the USA (east coast) very soon. In each location there is one Senior Engineer position and one Developer-Engineer position. Contact me in private (jobs at windowsdiskless dot com) for more details (this is a forwarded e-mail address and I will receive the e-mails sent to this address). This is a real opportunity, not a fake! Thanks in advance -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95355
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    - optimazation options on free build environment by default Hi all. I have a question about free build environment on WDK(version 6000). On x86 Free Build Environment, MSC_OPTIMIZATION defaults to /0xs. I understand that /Oxs implies the use of the Frame Pointer Omission (/Oy) option. but /Oy- is appointed in compile. This cause is so that it is written as the following in "i386mk.inc" . DBGFLAGS=$(DBGFLAGS) /Oy- CFLAGS=$(386_FLAGS) $(NT386FLAGS) $(STDFLAGS) $(DBGFLAGS) $(PERFFLAGS) $(USER_C_FLAGS) Why will /Oy- be set ? Will there be any important meaning in setting /Oy- ? Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95350
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    - windows ce 5.0 intermediate driver hi all, i'm new to windows ce... And i'm using windows ce 5.0 platform builder.... could any body tell me,how to install the intermediate driver using windows ce 5.0 platform builder? thanQ all Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95349
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    - WDF DMA use Hi. I'm designing a device driver that interacts with a master PCI DSP. I have read the documentation regarding the DMA abstraction and have some questions. The way that the DMA will work is packet-based mode, and packets will be 4KByte. Packets will be allocated by a user mode process, and an MDL will be built to describe this packet. Although the packet size is equal to a page size (32 bit OS) it might be fragment to several locations on the physical memory. A scatter\gather list will hold the description of physical address per fragment. The questions are: 1. What is the size of the smallest fragment? Will it be a byte? 1a. Can I assume what will be the number of fregamnts for 4096 bytes packet (reminder - it was allocates in a user mode application)? 2. Can I set the number of fragments and size? 3. If I set the trasfer length to be 4096 bytes and my packet size is 4096 bytes will a transaction contain one transfer? 4. If the DSP interrupts when a trasfer is completed, however it interrupts in other occasions, can the driver tell the difference? Can I write some logic in the DPC (ISR of course cannot tell the difference) in order to destingwish between two "reasons" of DSP interrupt? 5. Will a 4096 bytes Thank you in advanced for your help! Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95333
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    - How to progamatically do a USB "soft eject" like explorer Windows explorer allows for a soft eject feature for USB drives that I would like to recreate in my program. This is useful for USB drives where a compact flash is inserted and removed but the USB drive remains connected to the PC. Does anyone know what functions are involved to accomplish this? I have seen code which accomplishes the hard eject (removing the entire USB device) but not the soft eject which only flushes the cache. Thanks Tag: Regarding Driver Build Tag: 95324

Hi,
can we use a windows server 2003 x64 build for windows xp 32 bit machine.
I know that windows server 2003 x64 build can be used for windows xp x64
version.
Basically I am thinking of using the same binary (windows server 2003 x64
build for both the machine)
1.windows xp 32 bit processor
2.windows 64 bit processor x64 build version of windows.
Right now I am using windows xp build for 32 bit processor (windows 32)
Thanks in Advance

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Re: Regarding Driver Build by Don

Don
Tue Jun 05 06:43:20 CDT 2007

No you need seperate binaries for the x64 and x86 builds. You can have one
install package with a single inf file.

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> Hi,
> can we use a windows server 2003 x64 build for windows xp 32 bit machine.
> I know that windows server 2003 x64 build can be used for windows xp x64
> version.
> Basically I am thinking of using the same binary (windows server 2003 x64
> build for both the machine)
> 1.windows xp 32 bit processor
> 2.windows 64 bit processor x64 build version of windows.
> Right now I am using windows xp build for 32 bit processor (windows 32)
> Thanks in Advance
>
>
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