devcon.exe failed: Windows 7 Hi I'm having problems installing the test drivers from WDK package on x86 Windows 7. I'm using kernel debugger so signing should not be an issue. The drivers are built in checked environment, .inf, .sys, coinstaller and devcon.exe are then copied to a temp folder. Through an administrator command prompt I try... 28 Oct 2009 11:47
USB networking device slow removal Hello Hannes, If you write the driver in WDF, you should check whether EvtDeviceSurpriseRemoval callback has been invoked when you remove USB WWAN device accidentially. System does not issue device remove notification until driver release all resources including memory, NET_BUFFER_LIST(of course, you are wri... 27 Oct 2009 03:44
why does the Windows 7 WDK break my build? I have been using the 6001.XXXX WDK for several years and my drivers build just fine. When I upgraded to 7600, the build broke. The error messages seem to indicate that the wrong source directory is being used. For some reason, the build process is all relative to the root directory instead of the base directo... 27 Oct 2009 23:47
Manually editing INF file for flakey soundcard I don't know much about driver development (beyond making some VxDs in the Win98 days), but I'm trying to do something that would benefit by some deeper understanding. I have a Creative Soundblaster card in my WinXP system that boots up and operates perfectly 90% of the time. But 10% of the time it causes the Ne... 25 Oct 2009 22:03
Signed driver package rejected by Win 7 RC, Why? I thought it would be nice to test my 64-bit KMDF 1.7 driver on Win 7 Ultimate RC... well even with a digital certificate used to sign the driver package, it is rejected with the following message: A recently installed program tried to install an unsigned driver. This version of Windows requires all drivers to... 6 Nov 2009 01:37
How to set Connection Timeout and KeepAlive Timeout value in WSK client driver Hi, How to set Connection Timeout and KeepAlive Timeout value in WSK client driver? thank you very much, Bandu ... 23 Oct 2009 11:06
Pnpd Test Failure in Vista x64 Hello, I'm running DTM tests for a USB device. The test "Plug and play driver test" fails for Vista x64 while the test pass in Vista x86, XP x86/ x64, Win 7 x86/x64. So, i thought of debugging with Windbg. I installed WDK 7600 and when i run pnpdtest.exe from $DDKROOT\tools\pnpd2\amd64 i get the following pop... 23 Oct 2009 07:47
virtual driver problem statement: A driver has to be written such that when Input to MS-Word open is given as Z:base 32 encoded string Here, Z: is the drive which is not existing base 32 encoded string: path to the encrypted file which is to be opened;key;iv the driver has to be called and then decode the encoded str... 30 Oct 2009 06:45
NdisOpenConfigurationKeyByIndex returns KeyName not NULL terminate Hi, When my driver is verified by the driver verifir on Win7 (64 bit), NdisOpenConfigurationKeyByIndex returns KeyName not NULL terminated. The system crashes when the driver tries to access the buffer. For example it crashes by printing the buffer. Why this functions does not return a good unicode str... 24 Oct 2009 23:08
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