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missing 1394 data
Posted on August 15th, 2003 | 0 Comments

While transferring isochronous firewire stream into my PC I found missing cycles. Definitely they receive the host controller. But not the PC´s memory. I found that kernel stress forces this effect....

how to redirect LPTx putput to file
Posted on August 15th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hello How I can redirect LPT output to file or capture it by my own application? some examples? os is winXP, language VC++ or Delphi S.

ORB_ POINTER problem with Multiple LUN under Firewire
Posted on August 15th, 2003 | 2 Comments

I'm working on a device that will function as a digital camera and harddisk unit at the same time on firewire using the SBP-2 protocol under Win2000/XP. As a single camera or single harddisk logical...

Suspend order?
Posted on August 15th, 2003 | 3 Comments

I have written a driver that needs to get some information from other drivers before the computer suspends. The problem is that by the time my driver receives the query to suspend message, the...

Re: IM drivers not returning packets to miniport ?
Posted on August 15th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Hi Larry, I currently cannot think of any known issues that would cause this particular behaviour. Have you run NDISTest against your Miniport?...

Re: Device Installation and UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices
Posted on August 15th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Read this thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&output=search&selm=ul2YR38bCHA.2024%40tkmsftngp10 -- -Eliyas This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers...

how to install an updated driver
Posted on August 15th, 2003 | 3 Comments

I have a problem with driver updating. I install an old driver for my device on a Win2K machine. Then I unplug the device and run my program to update the driver (it copies the new INF...

how to use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH to use a SCSI printer through firewire (1394)
Posted on August 15th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I do not know if this applies to printers, but there are devices which if they are being handled by a class driver, then you cannot send the SCSI commands to the bus, you have to send them to the...

Problem with display driver
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 9 Comments

I have written and display driver/miniport driver pair for a rather specialised display adapter for Windows XP. It has twenty outputs and has been developed for a specific application (20 outputs...

1394 device driver class
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 5 Comments

What should be the class in Version section of INF for 1394 device driver(NOT host controller).

Q:Installing Printer Language Monitor programatically ?
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Hi I cant seem to install a language monitor. AddMonitor only mentions port monitors, does this also work for language monitors ? If I use AddMonitor, it looks like it installs correctly, but no...

RSSI
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 2 Comments

How does Windows XP convert the RSSI that 802.11 NIC reports to signal strength bars? Thanks, Shawn

Re: Regional settings - access the registry from within a driver?!?!
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 0 Comments

There might be some other way to get to these values that doesn't involve reading the current user registry settings, but in terms of reading HKEY_CURRENT_USER from a driver, AFAIK the only way to do...

Packard Bell Modem
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hey all, I'm searching for a driver for a Packard Bell 33.6 DBF Modem. The computer is old, and I'm having trouble locating it on the internet. Can anyone help? Thanks. -Jason

Driver key names for USB device interfaces
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Using IOCTL_USB_GET_NODE_CONNECTION_DRIVERKEY_NAME gives me the driver keyname for the attached USB device. Is there a way to get the driver key names for each interface? For example having a...

Re: Inserting and using a binary blob in a driver executable
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 8 Comments

rebuilding the driver? I don't get it. -- -Eliyas This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/driver/kb-drv.mspx

FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification - Error 122
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hello out there, We've the problem, that our software which works with the api FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification fails, if the printer is connected over a novell server. The error occurs only if we...

How to overtake FAT32 system
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Dear all: How can i to overtake FAT32 filesystem > 32GB, and one filesize > 4GB? Help me, Thank everyone!!!! Begining >>> Ken Yang

How do I learn to write device drivers without a device
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 5 Comments

Hi, I've got the latest DDK and "The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book" by Baker and Lozano, but how can I practice writing device drivers without a device? How do I break into this? Suppose I wanted...

Windows NT Keyboard Driver question
Posted on August 14th, 2003 | 4 Comments

All, I know this is a pretty tall request of a newsgroup, but I have a recent need for a one-handed keyboard. I am not asking you to develop this for me, but rather just to give me some ideas about...