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Printer driver device fonts bold/italic/underline
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have been updating a previously written monolithic (non-minidriver) printer driver. The printer has its own fonts that it can render as bold, italic, and underline. Do I have to implement an...

Is the Driver Verifier available for Embedded XP?
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I would like to use the Driver Verifier to test a device driver we have developed for Embedded XP. Is this possible, or will I have to move the driver to XP Professional to run the Driver Verifier?

SPTI firewire problem
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 17 Comments

Can anybody help me with the following problem? I am using SPTI's IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH call to send MMC "READ CAPACITY"(25h) command from my XP PC to the FireWire DVD-drive . So, drive's behaviour...

Unhandled Exception in ExpWorkerThread
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 2 Comments

I have a very intermittent (4 times in one month) BSOD that tracks back to ExpWorkerThread calling ObpProcessRemoveObjectQueue and hitting an exception at address 00000098 . How can I find out what...

WINDDK is not getting compiled
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 9 Comments

Hi, I have installed WINDDK 3790.1289 version of DDK. I wanted my soultion to be compiled on ia64 bit machine too as my setting were perfectly running with the same code settings for ia32 bit...

Help, i wanna look at routing protocol development
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have doubt on what to use to develop a routing protocol for wireless LAN. I wanna loop for routing protocol development, write an algorithm for wireless LAN card let say AODV(an ad hoc routing...

unhiding hidden partition on the fly
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Several PCs I work with every day have hidden FAT partitions that are used for booting into DOS at times. Since Windows does not see the hidden partition there is no direct way of accessing the data....

How Disk.sys gets loaded after USBSTOR.sys for USB Mass Storage De
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have a Sony USB Memory Stick Walkman. I have developed my own USBSTOR.sys using DDK USB Bulk driver. I can read Config/interface info. How does Disk.sys gets loaded after USBSTOR.sys? I...

my debugger is soooooo slow
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Can anybody help me out with this really anoying issue? I am using WinDbg 6.2.00.13.0 and at one point the debugging was really fun since everything was going in almost realtime. So now suddenly the...

Help with CM_Disable_Devnode
Posted on February 8th, 2005 | 14 Comments

See the DEVCON sample. The function is SetupDiCallClassInstaller with a proper operation code. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft...

Accessing Printer Device dependent information
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello, I apologize if this is not the place for this questions, and I also apologize for the fact that it may sound uninformed, because, well, it is. I am writing an application to set default...

How to read HID Descriptor using URBs (in a driver)
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Hi All, I'm writing a HID Miniport to transform a USB device that has 2 HID interfaces into a single HID device. To do this I'm sending raw URBs down to the device in response to IOCTL_HID calls...

reading from payload from ndis network packets.
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi all, I am trying to read payload content from NDIS packets. I have problems with the offset option, my code is this struct xx{ Dword m_data; } xx; xx ...

How to match between physical usb device and its drive letter?
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hello, all! I make enumeration of all usb devices using functions SetupDixxx, starting from SetupDiGetClassDevs with GUID_CLASS_USB_DEVICE. I can obtain symbolic path name of each usb device...

IP Address from IM Driver
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 9 Comments

Hi all In the NDIS IM driver, I used IPHelper library call GetAdapterInfo() to fetch the IP address of the 802.3 adapter. It returns nothing (0.0.0.0) in CurrentIPAddress and Also in...

why USB driver is required ?
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 11 Comments

If I develop my own embedded device with ethernet interface, I dont have to write a ethernet driver on PC side. I can write an application on PC with Win32 socket APIs and talk to my...

Windbg question
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 3 Comments

kd> In bfd938cd ^ Syntax error in 'In bfd938cd' why does this give me error... I run !sym noisy

SRB_STATUS_DATA_OVERRUN question
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I am using IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH call to send "SEND DVD STRUCTURE" CDB to the DVD-writer(internal, IDE). Drive reports SRB_STATUS_DATA_OVERRUN (0x12) SRB status but implements command successfully...

how to manually call ClientEventReceived in TDI filter driver?
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hello, I need to manually call ClientEventReceived in my TDI filter driver, but I manage only to crash the system with bug check DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. One problem that I have is that I...

HID Miniport - 1 Q
Posted on February 7th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Still struggling with a driver to 'cook' HID reports before HIDClass gets to see them. Have a (USB) composite HID device which I want to present as a single HID collection to the OS... Is my HID...