Device Drivers

IPV6 Checksum offload Win2k3
Hi All, I'm supporting IPV6 checksum offload on Windows 2003 server. Though I return IPV6 capabilities in the MiniportQueryInformation, still NDIS does not seem to enable the IPV6 checksum offloads in the MiniportSetInformation call. Is there some registry parameter etc required to be set explicitly to ena... 21 Mar 2008 15:29

Upper filter driver - attaching to devices
I'm using IoAttachDevice. It returns OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND. I'm using the same device name as shown by irptracker and devicetree utilities. Any ideas? Also, are they any other methods to attach to a lower device? Thanks /kmk ... 21 Mar 2008 14:23

BDA driver and MS Windows MCE
Hello, I have a problem with developing BDA driver for MS MCE. First thing I did was to compile a BDA sample from MS DDK. This sample works in MS XP perfectly, but when I try to use this BDA driver in MCE it doesn't work I'm trying to run Media Center in MCE and this application can't find this BDA sample dri... 27 Mar 2008 20:48

.INF setup fails using syssetup.dll, setupapi.dll, OK with Hardware Update Wizard
Hi: Where is some documentation on the differences between the parsing of .inf files between the Hardware Update Wizard and installing .inf files using either syssetup.dll or setupapi.dll? The .inf file in question installs successfully (manually) with the Hardware Update Wizard, but fails with either of the dl... 23 Mar 2008 18:44

Debug tool question
Hi What is the best tool to debug Windows driver, is it SoftIce ? I use DebugView to see DebugPrint message, could you suggest some more powerful free tool or Microsoft tool ? Thank you. ... 21 Mar 2008 07:07

How to kill driver process ?
Hi I am debugging some driver, I build and replace its sys file in system32\drivers. I find that I should reboot Windows to see new debug messages. If I remove and add this device, or disable then enable it, I cannot see new debug messages. Is there any way or tool to clean driver process, I have seen othe... 21 Mar 2008 10:34

enumerating all open WDFFILEOBJECTs?
My device is not exclusive and can have multiple file handles open. I would like to store an integer that is unique to each file handle. It seems the recommended method is to store the data in the WDFFILEOBJECT's device context. However, when new data arrives from my device, the driver needs to examine and pote... 20 Mar 2008 20:16

KMDF windbg !wdflogdump gives "could not retrieve WDF IFR header" ... again
are symbols for your driver loaded? what is the output of !lmi <mydriver>? wdf01000.sys is for all v1.* versions of kdmf. v1.5 is still wdf01000.sys as is v1.7. d -- Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. this alias is for newsgroup purposes only. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warr... 26 Mar 2008 16:48

Visual Studio 2008
Could you recommend a dev tool (VS) to connect to MySQL from Visual Studio 2008? ... 21 Mar 2008 04:57

Invalid logger id in !wmitrace.logdump ?
I have this same problem. When I use the strdump command, even though my wmi trace is active, I only get the following output. 0: kd> !wmitrace.strdump (WmiTracing)StrDump Generic LoggerContext Array @ 0x808AE180 [0 Elements] I do not see anything that looks like a logger identifier. What am I missing? ... 20 Mar 2008 14:16