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Skipping IoMarkIrpPending in Completion Routine
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Can i skip the code in the CR for my driver originated irp?

Quering all the availalable adapters in my pocket pc
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am opening an NDIS file as below: dev_handle = CreateFile(NDISUIO_DEVICE_NAME, // fileName GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, // desiredAccess 0, // shareMode 0, //...

FYI: VTune Performance Analyzer Essentials
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 3 Comments

FYI: Intel has published a book on its VTune tool: "VTune Performance Analyzer Essentials" -> http://www.intel.com/intelpress/sum_vtune.htm See the table of...

problem with NdisReturnPackets ( )
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 14 Comments

Hello, All! I get BSOD on vmware 5.0 and some other networc cards. It does not happen on other vmware versions and physical NICs. The problem appears when I try to send previously queued packed....

How to send scan codes to windows-system from within a wdm?
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello together, I try to develope a wdm and need to send from this some scan codes to the windows system. I use compuwares softice driver suite and VC6.0. Before this project I build a vxd with...

Error : INVALID_PIPE_HANDLE on Interrupt pipe 0x81 (USB)
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hi, I had developed a minidriver in DDK for a USB keyboard controller which supported polling for interrupt pipe on 0x81 and a vendor request - write operations. It was working fine. The development...

IoStartNextPacket from StartIo
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Can i call IoStartNextPacket from StartIo routine ....Mani

*InputDataConsumed always = 0 (moufiltr)
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Hi everyone, I found that in MouFilter_ServiceCallback the input data always contain one packet (InputDataStart + 1 = InputDataEnd) but *InputDataConsumed always = 0 (I don't know if this parameter...

obtain driver checksum and timestamp?
Posted on April 28th, 2005 | 8 Comments

My driver needs to find out checksum & timestamp for other drivers in the system. Is there *any* way to do this from within a driver? Any input appreciated, / Hannes.

Hardware test submission to Winqual problem
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello, I am creating a submission for a hardware product, a PCI device, for my company and I have two questions. 1. During creating the submission as a 'First-time hardware and driver...

RE: Hardware test submission to Winqual problem
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

"Long Ta" wrote: They could change the web interface from time to time. Check whether you now need to register your IDs *before* making any submission. No this is normal for many driver types,...

About Supporting RAMDISK's total disk size to any limit.
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Respected Sir, I want to know as to, what necessary changes should I make to make sure that, the total disk size of ramdisk sample software must support to any extent. As, in my case, it is the...

DIFxApp 2.0 won't install my driver - it doesn't think it's signed
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 6 Comments

I thought I had this DIFxApp thing under control, but I just upgraded to version 2.0 that was just released (I need the x64 support) and it seems to have broken something. The install now aborts with...

Using VideoPortCreateSecondaryDisplay and DDC
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

My driver is using VideoPortCreateSecondaryDisplay() to add 3 secondary displays (XP Sp2). I'm finding that my VidGetVideoChildDescriptor() never gets called with HwDevExtn for any of the secondary...

Sending network data from driver mode
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi, I have a disk class filter driver. I need to send some data to another machine through network. How I can do network operations from kernel mode? Please help me. Is there any sample code...

FSF hang
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I am encoutering hang due to my FSF driver. When i see the hang i always find "watchdog!WdUpdateRecoveryState: Recovery enabled." statement in the debugger. What is it?

About capture stream data in bda
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hi, I wrote two bda filters (tuner/demod, and capture), but now, I puzzled where could I capture the stream from device. First, I thought that it should be in tuner/demod filter. So I reviewed the...

USB printer status - Windows XP
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Dear All, I would like to retrieve the status of an USB printer under Windows XP so that it be possible to know *before* printing whether the printer is operational. I had a look at the Microsoft...

Link between setup classes and interface classes.
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Dear All, I would like to communicate directly with USB and parallel local printers using CreateFile, WriteFile and ReadFile functions from the Windows API. To retrieve local printers connected to...

Question on EXPORT_DRIVER
Posted on April 27th, 2005 | 17 Comments

Hello All, I have a question on EXPORT_DRIVER. I have read the related articles and the questions raised on the same and the answers also for the same. But, I could not get the answer to...