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Creating a null .INF file
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 5 Comments

OK, I'm an app developer, not a driver developer... We build and ship digitizers. We have recently re-architected our software away from a device driver model, but we have a problem. Some of our...

IFIMETRICS - howto read font name and font characters
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello, first of all thanks a lot to everybody, who wrote back to my questions till this time. Now I am reading the IFIMETRICS structure to calculate the fontsize. All works fine. But I meed to know...

kbfiltr+moufiltr produce IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 2 Comments

I am tring to combine kbfiltr, moufiltr to 1 filtr driver which can filtr (as class filter ) both ps/2 kb and mouse. Is that ok? I always use nonpaged memory, but I sometimes got...

Purify and spooler components
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 3 Comments

Has anyone had success using Purify (or a similar tool) to analyze spooler components? (Language monitors, port monitors, etc.) -- Matt Kane mkane@zebra.orange.com minus fruit

GetPrinterDataFromPort()
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 0 Comments

Anybody found a way to call this Language Monitor Function from a C program? I really need this function to be working, but calling GetPrinterData() from a C function (as it says in the MSDN...

How to: Write user mode dll for 61883.sys
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, 1. how to access the functions of 61883.sys from a user mode application to send FCP data Should i write an user mode dll for the 61883.sys or is there one available already? 2. How to use SBP2...

_URB_BULK_OR_INTERRUPT_TRANSFER
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi. This is probably a dumb question, but anyways.. here goes... I've coded a filter driver for a USB-keyboard. My dispatch-routine finds the case of _URB_BULK_OR_INTERRUPT_TRANSFER. Here i can see...

Safely Remove USB Device
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 8 Comments

Hi all. I'm trying to do what's done with the little icon "Safely remove hardware". I found something about a hotplug.dll and various other things, but there was nothing on how to really achieve...

Uninstall hangs-NDIS
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi all, When i uninstall the ndis intermediate driver ,it hangs. It hangs when NdisIMDeInitializeDeviceInstance is getting executed from ptunbindadapter. Then i modified the code as given below.But...

Problem calling NdisMSendComplete within MiniportSendPackets on IM Drivers
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi! I've written an IM driver for LAN/WAN network interfaces. It's based on the passthru sample driver in the DDK 2003. Passthru will call NdisMSendComplete from its MiniportSendPackets any time the...

PREfast: Different outcome if compiled with or without?
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 7 Comments

Hello, I just had a somehow unexpected result: I compiled a driver which compiles perfectly ("build -cZ") with PREfast (driver specific rules), that is, "prefast build -cZ". Somehow, the...

DrvQueryFont - LNK2019 unresolved external
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi, The link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q264243 shows how to receive the points for an output from the DDK. But till I implemented the lines I receive an error: "LNK2019...

how to get 10us timer?
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 0 Comments

I am to get a timer less than 10us in Windows os! what shall I do?

HCT test cannot start because harsh values change
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hello everyone, Regardless how many times I have uninstalled and reinstall the HCT 11.2, I cannot start the test any more. The error is shown below. + I removed HCT and reinstalled it. Did not...

How to replace Spinlock ?
Posted on March 1st, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi All, I have to port a WDM video capture driver to WinCE 4.2....i am finding frequent occurence of KeAcquireSpinLock and following release ...How can i replace this kernel mode spinlock to a user...

Performance IOCTL's
Posted on February 28th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hello, I use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT to send ATAPI commands to my cd/dvd-writer. When I try to write a disc (sending Write10 commands) , I get a lot of so-called bufer underruns with my...

Run HCT Tests in Command Mode??
Posted on February 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Is it possible to run HCT tests from Command mode i mean i want to create a script which would run ACPI S1,S3 Device Path Excerciser, Enable Disable I/O etc., from command prompt. I would appreciate...

Generic / text only printer problem
Posted on February 28th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi, i'm trying to create a mechanism to print to plain-text-only-files without user intervention. I did this using the Generic Printer Driver, printing to a Redirection Port, redirecting to a...

User mode/Kernel Mode context question
Posted on February 27th, 2005 | 1 Comments

There is article in the IFS called "take it to the limit" about switching contexts. The point of the article is that as long as you are sure you are in the correct user mode context, you can call a...

CoNdis miniports questions
Posted on February 27th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Well, I have a couple of questions about the diferences between Wan, CoNdis and CoNdis Wan miniports. A ndis miniport is connection oriented if MajorNdisVersion is 5 or if MajorNdisVersion is >=5...