Device Drivers

NdisDeregisterDeviceEx
Does this function exist? My miniport is not compiling since ndis.h doesn't contain the prototype. Should I use good ol' NdisDeregisterDevice instead? ... 14 Apr 2008 20:11

How do you execute an app that needs admin privs from a user acct?
I've got a device driver for a custom pci device, that exposes an ioctl interface to user mode appications. Under Windows Vista, the only way to exeucte the app is with an account that has admin privs. Is there any way to use a standard non-admin user account to execute the app? /Russ ... 18 Apr 2008 01:13

Send raw data to USB device
My boss wants me to write a driver to download USB driver directly into a mobile device. After the USB driver is downloaded into the mobile device, I need to download the rest of system image via the same USB cable. Therefore, I cannot use standard USB driver( like WinUSB) to achieve it because there is no U... 18 Apr 2008 01:13

SDIO CCCR register version bug.
Hi, I'm developing a SDIO card driver for wince5, I face a problem about the SDIO CCCR spec version. the CCCR spec version of our SDIO card is 1.2. But in SDBUS driver, it only read the power control register when the CCCR spec version is 1.1.( in shared code Sddevice.cpp, line 1809, and sdhceventhandlers.cpp l... 14 Apr 2008 07:03

how to resolve this wpp error
Hi, Iam very new to wpp tracing.... i created a simple program with just one trace call... the file is givin compilation errors Code: # include <stdio.h> # define WPP_CONTROL_GUIDS \ WPP_DEFINE_CONTROL_GUID(temp, (FF2C5B0C, 70AE, 43b3, BA63, 3757C3A49647), \ WPP_DEFINE_BIT(TRACE_DEBUG)\ WPP_DEFINE_BIT(TR... 14 Apr 2008 08:55

IRP_MJ_INTERNAL_DEVICE_CONTROL, ioctl codes: 0x0 and 0x1
which ioctls 0x0 and 0x01 refer to? I'm seeing in my filter driver. thanks /n2 ... 15 Apr 2008 20:17

Changing MAC address of physical adapters from Intermediate driver
Hi All, Now I have a Notify object dll. And I am implementing a MUX type IM driver for 802.3 ad Link aggregation I want to change the mac address when I am installing a Virtual adapter or when I am uninstalling a virtual adapter on top of the physical adapter I found out that it cant be done thru OIDs and I... 13 Apr 2008 23:06

OOB Information
Hi Gurus, Can you help me give some information to my NDIS driver whenever I send a specific packet? MSDN tells me to use OOB Information which is attached to every packet descriptor whenever MiniportSend is being called. How can an application supply some OOB information to the driver? How can the driver... 13 Apr 2008 23:06

Should we study circuitry?
Hi Should driver engineer study circuitry for driver development , or it is hardware engineer work only ? Thank you. ... 14 Apr 2008 08:06

Jungo's WinDriver ToolKit
Hi I see Jungo's WinDriver Toolkit can support Vista and Unix like OS . Do you think it is worthy of study much more convenient than WDK ? Is there other good driver Toolkit in the market ? Thank you . ... 15 Apr 2008 17:52