Hi,
When I install for example
NDIS intermediate driver for debugging purposes, when I need exchange it
for new build, uninstalling and installing again is not sufficient. I must
uninstall it, restart machine, and install driver again.
It seems that once driver is loaded it remains in memory (or some resources
reamins) and unloading needs restart.

I think that this behaviour is related to plug-and-play feature in W2K and up,
but W2K are plug-and-play (or not absolutely ? ) ?
Can be driver 100% unloaded without restarting machine ?

Thanks,
Peter

You should be able to unload an NDIS IM driver without restarting.
The driver won't unload until ALL instances of your device have been
removed.

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Calvin Guan Software Engineer/Radeon NT Drivers
ATI Technologies Inc. Markham ON, Canada www.ati.com


"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0ABBF705-4FDA-4305-9E0A-115CE0F4096E@microsoft.com...

Yes, this is very annoying. So try to make your driver unloadable first of all.
Also some people use Virtual PC to debug such things.

--PA

"Peter" wrote:

Thanks,
your advice inspired me to check something other,
problem was that driver had some uninitialized resources.
Now it is 100% plug and play.
:-)

P.

"Calvin Guan" wrote:

Yes. Disable all its devices in Device Manager and note WinDbg making a trace
on module unload.

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com