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Win2K Driver re-loading problem...
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi, I am writing an upper layer function driver, this driver should be compatible with WinXP and with Win2K ( No service pack ), the driver is created as exclusive and is loaded and unloaded...

How to trap as soon as some Windows app of the same computer sends a print job to the network printer server?
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I need to write an app, which could trap as soon as some Windows app of the same computer sends a print job to the network printer server, add some data to JOB_NOTIFY_FIELD_USER_NAME field of the...

PCL5e and PCL6
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hello, anybodies knows what is the difference between PCL5 and PCL6? Thanks Keshav

OEMUI and OEMUNI
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi Vipin Sir, I developed a Rendering plugin and it works properly as expected. But now I'm developing the UI Plugin, and from that I want to change the image size, i.e. if I give say height = 1 in...

Ndis Miniport Driver with WPP
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi, I am trying to get WPP Trace functionality added to a NDIS miniport driver written for Windows 2000 in C++? Does any one have any samples? Since my code was not compiliing I tried putting the WPP...

Why ExAllocatePool fail ?
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 7 Comments

When I use ExAllocatePool( ) to allocate nonpaged pool, sometime will fail. And I use XPDDK's DriverVerify(on XP) to check the nonpaged pool peak bytes, it's only 64 bytes. Could anyone tell me why...

Function Driver was not specified for this device instance
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi , I written a win2k plug n play driver for PCMCIA 16 bit PC card.I written the code up to the device detection. While installing the drivers I given the path of our device inf file and it has...

A Driver Unload Question
Posted on September 11th, 2005 | 8 Comments

I have a user mode application that keeps an IRP pending until a condition is satisfied or the device is removed. The driver's remove device routine completes the IRP with STATUS_CANCELLED. The user...

hooking COM interfaces and methods
Posted on September 11th, 2005 | 2 Comments

I use the excellent COM tracer (Spying on COM Objects by Dmitri Leman) which I use for hooking COM interfaces and methods. Problem is that I can't trace all the methods that I need (especially...

How application get the indication generated by ndis driver?
Posted on September 11th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi all, For the purpose of monitor the status in driver by application, it seems uneffiency to poll the status ocassionally. If the driver indicates its status change by NdisMIndicateStatus(), how...

Why Can't I Load a Device Driver?
Posted on September 11th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi All, I've written a bus enumerator driver and a "USB Stack" simulation driver. My bus enumerator returns the appropriate device IDs in response to IRP_MN_QUERY_ID PnP calls, and the system brings...

How to use Symbolic Link Name of IoRegisterDeviceInterface() in the Applications
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I written a win2k plug n play driver for pcmcia 16 bit PC card and this driver successfully recognized the card. In driver, in IoCreateDevice funtion I given Device name as NULL and Device type...

ndisprot, ndisuio, packet - Help plz?
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi, For the last 5-6 months I have tried the "ndisprot like" examples from the 3 versions of the DDKs (packet, ndisuio, ndisprot) and practically I have learned a few things through trial and...

What kind of driver?
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I am beginning the development of a device driver for a virtual network device. The driver will 'translate' apps I/O for the device into IP packets and viceversa. The driver must be able to do the...

Motion control class
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 0 Comments

What class should one use for a motion controller? I don't see anything appropriate defined on the page "System-Supplied Device Setup Classes" at http://msdn.microsoft.com.

Class driver denies installation
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I've got a Firewire device that uses a pure-userspace handler and Unibrain's stack. I want a simple INF file to field the insertion notice. I created something approximating the "null driver"...

Monitoring 1394 communication
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Hi, Which of the tools, including in DDK, should i use to monitoring 1394/firewire communication ?? Thank you in advance. BR Peter

Who is watching the store!
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 8 Comments

After loading my MSI file on a bunch of computers, my systems and drivers were all working just fine except for one computer - drat. I hooked up windbg to that computer and discovered that it was...

USB Imaging Device Driver
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi, We are using an OmniVision imaging board, that uses the 3620 chip, which is bridged by a Cypress board. I am fairly new to device drivers and not sure what i need to do to implement a device...

AVStream Device - Isochronous or Bulk
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Hi, I am new to developing applications for AVStream-based devices and currently I'm trying to display video over a usb device. I understand that we can use MS's usbvideo.sys for this purpose but...