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Crash of WDK 6001 BUILD.EXE
Posted on February 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Reported to MS using Windows Error Reporting. Crash occurs if the directory listed in DIRS is absent. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft...

File filter driver or MUP network redirector?
Posted on February 6th, 2008 | 6 Comments

Perfect. Thanks muchly. Mike "Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote:

pci slot (device) number
Posted on February 6th, 2008 | 6 Comments

Yes. I'm aware of it. our mapping method also relies on a backplane specific configuration (for few backplanes types that we hold) and that's how i'm sure that a device on bus X is on the left or...

A simple file access monitor
Posted on February 6th, 2008 | 4 Comments

You can get the user sid of the originator, but that will be a local sid which is all the OP asked for. -- Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK) Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting Website:...

Re-enumerating usb devices
Posted on February 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hi, So far I have been able to programatically re-enumerate usb devices using CM_Reenumerate_Devnode_Ex. Now, I have a situation where in I have a USB device whose device drivers are missing and...

Power management problem in 5.1 NDIS miniport driver
Posted on February 6th, 2008 | 6 Comments

Thanks! I'll forward your reply to our hardware team. Hopefully, they'll know what to do next. Regards, Alexey "Pavel A." wrote:

installing multiple devices with one driver
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

For testing, test sign the driver. Real easy with the WDK now. Bill M. "jan" <jan@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:5D0517B8-D675-466E-9197-0B0211352748@microsoft.com...

How do you make a WDF driver create .Raw & .Translated resources?
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 10 Comments

or you plug in your device into another slot. this key is completely undocumented and subject to change on any OS release. why is the app relying on this key or its contents? -- Please do not send...

ioctl in a bus filter driver
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 1 Comments

if there is an FDO above you, i would bet that it is blocking creates. instead, use wmi since the upper device objects in the stack cannot fail the requests. d -- Please do not send e-mail directly...

virtual serial driver asks for a reboot in windows 2000
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 8 Comments

On Feb 5, 5:04 am, subhash <subhashsukuma...@gmail.com> wrote: Not to beat a dead horse, but this would have also been handled for you in KMDF. As to why this didn't matter in XP, well, ......

Dispatch and Completion routine synchronisation
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Ah... changing code now... Thank you! "Doron Holan " <doronh@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:e9#gy82ZIHA.5784@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

NDIS6 - Renew IP Address
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Are you setting the other parameters in the NDIS_STATUS_INDICATION structure properly? -ali -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. <yogev.work@gmail.com>...

TCP Stop Working
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Are you sure you are completing all the send requests? Or maybe you are dropping ACKs? what does your IM driver do? -ali -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no...

How to disable an intermediate driver?
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

To clarify, disabling an IM mux adapter does not affect bindings by getting the IM adapter out of the way. For IM filter drivers however I believe when we check the bindings again, we will find...

How to get a tcp/ucp port in im driver without copying all packet content?
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

NdisGetDataBuffer makes parsing the headers easier by copying them to a contiguous buffer -if- necessary. That's all. To OP, I don't understand why you have to copy the headers before checking out...

kernel memory
Posted on February 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments

"Peter Wieland " <peterwie@online.microsoft.com> wrote: Amen. If we could just teach that to the printer driver team at HP, my personal computer problems would be reduced significantly. 45...

OS platform for Win2K only in INF file
Posted on February 4th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Sorry, I figure it out how to do it. What I need to do is to add major and minor number in the platform extension. "Angie" <kimojolin@yahoo.com> wrote in...

windbg problem - still showing old structures
Posted on February 4th, 2008 | 7 Comments

also make sure that you did a clean build of your driver and any associated libs. you can easily change a local header and recompile one file while all remaining files have the old definition. you...

IRP_MJ_READ/IRP_MJ_WRITE Buffer Confusion.
Posted on February 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments

to add to what don said. if you are a function driver and defining your own meaning for read/write, you can decide what type of buffering to use by setting the appropriate flag in your device object....

Validating parameters for IoDeviceControl in KMDF -> KMDF verifier error
Posted on February 4th, 2008 | 3 Comments

you should never ship an INF which has BreakOnError set. if you did, this is not an error in kmdf, rather an error made by the manfucaturer. this the same shipping debug only code in a release...