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How to use a lookaside list?
Posted on May 19th, 2005 | 9 Comments

Hi Could someone please post a code sample or explain how to create a lookaside list and use it, and when to use the paged or non paged version of it? Thanks!

IM Drv Installation Question
Posted on May 19th, 2005 | 4 Comments

That's because your driver is unsigned. -BB "Soquel Dude" <ImInSoquel@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:OQ%23oSl%23WFHA.584@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Serialization of streaming I/O request with USB driver
Posted on May 19th, 2005 | 8 Comments

Hi group, I am developing a USB driver for ISP1583. I implement a bulk streaming for read and a normal bulk write. However, I am facing the problem of serializing I/O request when two applications...

NDIS IM
Posted on May 19th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hi all, I try to do some bridging using NDIS intermediate driver. I'm interested in following questions: 1) I don't want to do all job on DISPATCH_LEVEL where callback "ProtocolReceive" runs. Is it...

How to get Volume Serial Number
Posted on May 19th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi Is there a way to get serial number of volumes like CDROM or memory stick or other kinds of removable media ? I tried using IoQueryVolumeInformation() with FileFsVolumeInformation on a USB...

How replace obsolete NdisAllocateBuffer?
Posted on May 19th, 2005 | 13 Comments

How can I find out the page start address (and offset) given a virtual address? I recently ran a DRVfast (PREfast for drivers) code analysis on my PASSTHRU-style intermediate driver. One of the...

looking for approach recommendations
Posted on May 19th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have been studying the DDK, Oney's book and building proof-of-concept drivers for the last couple of months in order to determine the best approach to what I'm trying to accomplish. What am I...

PREfast suggestion!
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 4 Comments

A note to the PREfast team: (First, I just spent 2 days finding a dumb bug in our driver, where a spin lock was lcoked multiple times, then unlocked. This would result in the IRQL being left at...

DXT loading in DX7
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Does anybody know how I load DXT compressed textures in the DX7 DDI? There is not much documentation on this and DCT currently returns E_NOTIMPL. Any help would be welcome! Thanks, - Frido

ATI Radeon 9600 Mode problems on Windows XP
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I have an annoying problem on Windows XP where my video mode resets itself to 640x480 VGA mode about half the time when Windows starts up. I then have to manually reset it back to 1600x1200 which...

NTFS Spec For Firmware Design
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 8 Comments

I am developing firmware for a Hard Drive controller and we need to have detailed knowledge of file systems, including NTFS 3.1. The objective is to create a routine that quickly determines which...

MS Word and multiple copies
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Mornin' I have a print driver (kernel-mode at the moment) with a CPSUI-based interface. Whenever we try to print a job through MS Word (I've tried version 2000 and 2003 so far) with multiple copies...

Where can i find LDK samples
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi, I have heard a lot about LDK. But nobody says where we can get that. I.e we are having a MSDN Universal subscription. If so can some one send me a link to the page to get the LDK or else please...

toaster IRP_MN_REGINFO flow
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi, I need some clarification on sequence for the IRP_MN_REGINFO. In the AddDevice(...) of the toaster dispatch routine, the registering with the WMI happens via IoWMIRegistrationControl(...) and...

toaster sample(busenum.sys)
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi, I have a question in the bus driver, busenum.sys. Just stepping through it I see in pnp.c IRP_MN_QUERY_DEVICE_RELATIONS length = sizeof(DEVICE_RELATIONS) + ((numPdosPresent + prevcount) *...

Install kbfiltr
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi everyone, I would like to use DDK example kbfiltr to filter my USB keyboard but not my PS2 keyboard. So I figure that I have to install kbfiltr as an upper filtr of kbhid but below kbdclass. What...

PCI Driver Performance
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 5 Comments

When accessing the pci device's memory through WRITE_REGISTER_BUFFER_XXX, or READ_REGISTER_BUFFER_XXX, is the driver's performance much worse than accessing the pci device's memory directly? Is...

Does HID driver support absolute positioning mouse?
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 9 Comments

We have a scenario where a controller will emulate USB mouse to the main host cpu (over PCI). The controller receives the mouse data from a client in absolute positioning. In our USB mouse...

WZC on Windows 2003 Mobile: changing preferred networks list
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello, I'm trying to programmatically change the WZC's preferred networks list on Windows 2003 Mobile (in order to connect to a specific user-chosen access point). The problem is that WZCSAPI...

About IoGetDeviceObjectPointer and KB835732
Posted on May 18th, 2005 | 2 Comments

We develop our product driver on Windows 2000,base on serial port. we get lower level driver via calling IoGetDeviceObjectPointer succesfully if the KB835732 is not installed. But it will failed if...