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A timer and critical section question
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 16 Comments

Hi, Just a query suppose I have a data structure which is used by two functions A() and B() where B is a timer function which is called by setTimeEvent() to be called after every 3 sec. Their...

USB Video Class driver of WinXP SP2 support black/white mode?
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Does anyone know if the USB Video Class driver of WinXP SP2 support black/white mode? Any hint would be very much appreciated! Julia

Printer Port Security problems
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello, I'm creating an Local Printer port, programmatically under XP professional, without add port dialog using XcvData with AddPort. Till here all OK, The problem is that i can not use the printer...

Filter & Hooking in the same driver
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi Let's say i have a filter driver for CDROM class that also uses dispatch table hooking (like hooking ZwCreateFile). Except that in general, hooking is not recommended, should i expect special...

ZwAllocateVirtualMemory problem in image notify callback routine
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, From my driver I want to allocate some virtual memory within a process if a particular DLL is loaded. The way I hoped to do this is to register a callback with PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine() and...

usb port monitor + printer busy issues
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello there, I have a doubt on how the windows provided port monitor, usbmon.dll, deals with flow control when the printer is busy. I understand that there´s a USB device class definition for a...

Problems using parllel port driver (Parport.sys) + spooler
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello there, Hope you guys can help me out on this one.... I´ve created a user mode driver ( dll ) to command a printer device connected to the parallel port; it is supposed to work in all WinOS...

GSM signal strength in PDA
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I need to check GSM signal strength for every 3 seconds and write it to a text file in PDA. This application must be developed in .NET. I have to also find how many masts are connected to GSM. As I...

NDIS IM driver usermode app communication
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi, I know that we can make use of DeviceIoControl(...) to the usermode app -- driver communication. I am yet to read James's wmi mechanism also. Thing is I want to send the bits and bytes (the one...

Access GPIO on W83627
Posted on June 9th, 2005 | 19 Comments

I've been tasked with writing a GPIO driver for the Winbond 83627. This is my first foray into "big Windows" (I'm coming from the CE world), and also my first foray into x86 (coming from the ARM...

Is there such a thing as a MS XP BlueTooth DDK?
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 6 Comments

We have 2.4 Ghz hardware and we are trying to expand it to Bluetooth. I saw a nice PowerPoint presentation about BT and Longhorn and there are SDK examples of how to write BT apps. Is there any DDK...

Re: Your Account at Www.hugenips.com has expired.
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hello P2003WP, We are sorry that we cannot offer our "old" service anymore. Your account will expire at the 2003-11-23. But after all, we still offer a free-mail service, which you have to <a...

Windows ME: scsi miniport doesn't have BusInterruptLevel in ConfigInfo
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I'm writing a scsi miniport driver on Windows ME for a PCI IDE controller. In HwFindAdapter, BusInterruptLevel is 0 and I check PCI interrupt line register in PCI header, it's also 0. But before...

Problem printing at lower dpi
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi, My virtual printer driver (to png image) has problems printing at lower dpi of say 100 or 200 dpi. There are mainly 2 problems: 1. When printing some documents like Google's home page in color...

Problem installing a printer driver programmatically
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I try to instal, programmatically , a post script driver for a CN3102 minolta printer on Windows XP (There's tha same problem on Server 2003) The first step of the driver installation driver (via...

How to change mouse firmware setting?
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi, all, I have a mouse, the scroll wheel behavior can be changed by reconfig the firmware settings, but I do not know how to do that. Is there any chance I can do it in user mode? or I need a...

NDIS - sending packets
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi all, I'm interested in solwing following problem in my NDIS intermediate driver. I need to send one packet (little changed) throught more than one adapter (resending broadcast to all conected...

Problem about USB port driver processing URB
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am developing a USB2.0 video camera. There is a question about the number of IRP the driver should submit. I try to use 1 / 2 / 4 IRPs. The time between IoCallDriver and completion routine for...

Trying to get an IM filter driver to bind to my IM MUX driver at install time
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi, I've got an NDIS IM MUX driver, which is based on the MUX sample in the W2k3 DDK. I'm trying to get an IM filter driver to bind to this, at *install time*. This filter driver is bound to the...

Re: Power-management in mixed mode drivers
Posted on June 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Dear Doron, In the very beginning of my USB driver development I decided to postpone power handler development and just forwarded any power IRP I saw to USB bus driver. All power management...