Device Drivers

XP: PCI slot number identification
Dear Sirs, I have the following question. I have two equal PCI cards. How can I get the information about numbers of PCI slots, in which these cards are switched in, using only driver facilities? Best regards, Sergey Alekseev ... 20 Jan 2007 17:19

snetcfg hang.
Hi! I'm using the snetcfg to install my driver and it hang right after the installation complete. Does // get INetCfg interface hr = HrGetINetCfg(TRUE, &pnc); really need it in HRESULT HrInstallNetComponent(IN PCWSTR szComponentId, IN enum NetClass nc, ... 18 Jan 2007 15:08

Resetting the USB stack
I have the following problem and need some help with solving it. I have an USB printer connected to a PC and due to ESD the PC is unable to communicate with the printer. I am checking for status from the Language Monitor with Vendor Command calls and get an error 31 executing the IOCTL. This is a generic error a... 23 Jan 2007 16:31

Windows Vista Add printer driver Error (0x00000003)
Hi While installing sample printer driver("XPSDrv Sample Driver") on Windows VISTA using Addprinter wizard i am getting an error message saying "Printer driver was not installed.Operation could not completed (error 0x00000003)". Even I have checked the content of .inf files also.All the mentioned files are a... 26 Jan 2007 02:51

NDIS 6 miniport driver and enabling MSI
The miniport driver I am working on is for an Ethernet device. The device supports MSI interrupts. Though, I have not been able to enable MSI interrupts on Vista so far. The driver sets MsiSupported to TRUE and sets required MSI handlers when it calls NdisMRegisterInterruptEx. The INF file adds the following... 25 Jan 2007 20:05

How to run 1394 Async/Isoch Commands for DDK sample???
How to run 1394 Async/Isoch Commands for DDK sample??? Dear Sir: I use 1394 sample code from DDK\src\wdm\1394(win1394.exe,1394api.dll ,1394vdev.sys,1394diag.sys), and I also plug one VIA-1394 ExpressCard into my MB, but not plug HDD into the expresscard. I install driver:1394vdev.sys and I can run some co... 30 Jan 2007 21:56

Vista DDK sample:algtuner doesn't work for MCE
Dear all: I'm working on a tv card driver now. After getting the 6000 version of Vista DDK, I compile the algtuner sample driver successfully.(/src/swtuner/algtuner) The driver using c:\mpeg\rio.mpeg for virtual tv source. After install, I config tv under MCE and try to watch it. But MCE popup a file error... 11 Jan 2007 05:02

WDK and bscmake
Hello, I build BDA drivers with the new WDK build 6000. I use a batch file to set environmentals and calling the WDK setenv.bat and the build utility. My batch file is called from Visual Studio 6. I want to use the (bsc) browse informations. The setenv is called with bscmake and w.r.t. this NO_BROWSE_FILE... 26 Jan 2007 05:27

IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT Problem
Hi, currently i try to call the DeviceIoControl Method with the ATA_PASS_THROUGH_DIRETC IOCTL. I don't know much about the IOCTL but i used an example from the DDK (spti example) to write my own code. My problem is, that DeviceIoControl returns true, but i only get trash. Here a snippet from my code: ---Definit... 10 Jan 2007 15:59

Selective suspend & stand by
Hi and happy new year to everyone ! I have an unexpected behavior with my USB driver : when the device is suspended and a stand by request is issued, sometimes the system refuses to enter stand by mode, here are the steps: [OS is WinXP SP2] [Device is suspended (D2) thanks to IOCTL_INTERNAL_USB_SUBMIT_IDLE_NO... 10 Jan 2007 11:15