WinDriver Technical Documents:
All Documents By ID
All Documents By ID
| ID | Subject | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 2 | Enabling legacy PCI configuration space read/write for identifying PCI devices on Windows | WinDriver | 10.3.1 and above |
| 3 | Preallocating contiguous DMA buffers on Windows | WinDriver | 11.1.0 and above |
| 4 | What operating systems and their respective versions does WinDriver support? | WinDriver | — |
| 5 | Using WinDriver to develop in Visual Basic | WinDriver | 11.1.0 and below |
| 6 | Using WinDriver to develop a graphical Win32 or MFC application | WinDriver | — |
| 7 | WinDriver for Windows NT 4.0 — supported service pack | WinDriver | 8.0.2 and below |
| 8 | When trying to install WinDriver v5.2.0 on my PC, using the Linux
alloc_kiovec() and free_kiovec().
|
WinDriver | 5.2.X |
| 9 | What are the limitations of the WinDriver evaluation kits? | WinDriver | — |
| 10 | Does WinDriver support development in C#? | WinDriver | 7.0.0 and above |
| 11 | Can WinDriver be used to develop for the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system? | WinDriver | — |
| 12 | What is the wddebug_gui Debug Monitor utility and how can I use it? | WinDriver | — |
| 13 | What is the wddebug Debug Monitor utility and how can I use it? | WinDriver | — |
| 14 | How do I use the Debug Monitor utility on VxWorks? | DriverBuilder | 5.4 and below |
| 15 | What is the pci_dump utility and how do I run it? | WinDriver | — |
| 16 | Can WinDriver handle multiple devices, of different or similar types, at the same time? | WinDriver | — |
| 17 | How can I improve my driver's performance with WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 18 | Can WinDriver group I/O and memory transfers? | WinDriver | — |
| 19 | Debugging your driver code with WinDriver | WinDriver | — |
| 20 | Can I run two different device drivers, both developed with WinDriver, on the same machine? | WinDriver | — |
| 21 | What is the significance of marking a resource as 'shared' with WinDriver, and how can I verify the 'shared' status of a specific resource on my card? | WinDriver | — |
| 22 | Does WinDriver support the Real Time Linux operating system? | WinDriver | — |
| 23 | Can I use WinDriver to access AGP devices? | WinDriver | — |
| 24 | If a variable requires a pointer to be assigned to it, as in
pBuffer = &dwVal, how do I do it in
|
WinDriver | 11.1.0 and below |
| 25 | I am trying to install WinDriver v5.0.5 on a machine running Linux SuSE 8.0, which uses the 2.4.18-4 Linux kernel. But the 'make install' command fails with this error: unresolved symbol kmap_pagetable |
WinDriver | 5.2.0 and below |
| 26 | Can I use WinDriver to define additional serial/parallel ports, using a PLX card? | WinDriver | 6.2.3 and below |
| 27 | How do I detect the location of my USB device on my Windows PC? | WinDriver | 6.2.0 and above |
| 28 | What is the Kernel PlugIn for WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 29 | Is the Kernel PlugIn available for all operating systems? | WinDriver | — |
| 30 | What is the development process for the Kernel PlugIn? | WinDriver | — |
| 31 | When trying to build my Kernel PlugIn project I get the following error: kptest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __chkstk How can I resolve this? |
WinDriver | — |
| 32 | I would like to execute in the kernel some pieces of code written in Delphi or in Visual Basic, using the Kernel PlugIn. Is it possible? | WinDriver | 11.1.0 and below |
| 33 | Using DebugView to monitor debug output | WinDriver | — |
| 34 | How do I allocate locked memory in the kernel that can be used inside the interrupt handler? | WinDriver | — |
| 35 | When trying to build my WinDriver application from MS Visual Studio, I get the following error: int_io.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __beginthreadex How can I resolve this? |
WinDriver | — |
| 36 | How can I use WinDriver to generate a diagnostics driver code for
|
WinDriver | 11.1.0 and below |
| 37 | What is pIntContext in the Kernel PlugIn interrupt functions?
|
WinDriver | — |
| 38 | I need to call WD_Transfer() and WD_UsbTransfer() in the Kernel PlugIn. From where do I get hWD to pass to these functions? | WinDriver | — |
| 39 | A restriction in KP_IntAtIrql is to use only non-pageable
memory. What does this mean? |
WinDriver | — |
| 40 | How do I call WD_Transfer() in the Kernel PlugIn interrupt handler? | WinDriver | — |
| 41 | How do I share a memory buffer between Kernel PlugIn and user mode projects for DMA or other purposes? | WinDriver | — |
| 42 | How do I send a GET_DESCRIPTOR request to my device, using WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 43 | Developing 32-bit Applications for 64-bit Architectures | WinDriver | 9.2.1 and above |
| 44 | Sending debug information from WinDriver's kernel module to a kernel debugger | WinDriver | 5.0.4 and above |
| 45 | What are the COPY_TO_USER_OR_KERNEL and COPY_FROM_USER_OR_KERNEL macros and when should they be used? | WinDriver | — |
| 46 | Why does my WD_KernelPlugInOpen() call fail? | WinDriver | — |
| 47 | Does WinDriver support Scatter/Gather DMA on Linux? | WinDriver | 5.2.0 and above |
| 48 | What is the interrupt latency of WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 49 | Replacing the driver for PCI/USB devices on Windows 2000: I tried to install new INF files for my Plug-and-Play devices on Windows 2000, using wdreg, but the OS keeps installing the old INF files from a previous WinDriver version. How can I resolve this? | WinDriver | 6.0.2–10.3.0 |
| 50 | WinDriver Operating Systems Support — Versions Overview | WinDriver | — |
| 51 | How do I port a DOS driver, which uses inp() and
outp() calls to access the card, into a Windows driver? |
WinDriver | — |
| 52 | How many I/O and memory spaces does WinDriver support on a single board? | WinDriver | — |
| 53 | How do I reset my USB device using version 5.2.2 of WinDriver? | WinDriver | 5.0.4–5.2.2 |
| 54 | Sample InstallShield procedure for installing the driver on a Windows machine | WinDriver | 5.2.2 and below |
| 55 | Buffer Overrun Error: WDU_Transfer() sometimes returns the
0xC000000C error code. What does this error code mean?
How do I solve this problem? |
WinDriver | 6.0.0 and above |
| 56 | Windows XP crashes (BSOD) when I listen to an isochronous pipe on my USB device. | WinDriver | — |
| 57 | Driver installation on Plug-and-Play systems (Windows 98/Me/2000/XP) — WinDriver version 5.0.5 and earlier | WinDriver | 5.0.5 and below |
| 58 | My attempt to allocate and lock a 1GB DMA buffer with WinDriver, on Windows, fails. Is this a limitation of the operating system? | WinDriver | — |
| 59 | I have run into a problem accessing 32MB of memory on a PCI card.
WD_CardRegister() fails to map the memory.The problem does not occur if I try to access 16MB of memory on my card. |
WinDriver | — |
| 60 | Can WinDriver be used in order to develop a network driver for Windows CE? | WinDriver | — |
| 61 | I am trying to install WinDriver on my Linux machine, but when I insert the WinDriver module (windrvr6.o) into the kernel I get errors regarding kernel version mismatch or unresolved symbols. How can I resolve this? | WinDriver | — |
| 62 | Kernel PlugIn Driver Installation — General Guidelines | WinDriver | — |
| 63 | When compiling the WinDriver module on Linux machine, I get the following error: usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers, but headers from an appropriate kernel-source |
WinDriver | 6.2.2 and below |
| 64 | Linux Contiguous Buffer DMA allocations — 128KB limitation | WinDriver | 8.0.1 and below |
| 65 | WinDriver For Solaris — 32-bit Architecture Support | WinDriver | 9.0.1 and below |
| 66 | WinDriver for Solaris SPARC — 33Mhz * 33MB PCI Bus Support | WinDriver | 9.0.1 and below |
| 67 | Can I use DriverBuilder to develop an Ethernet network driver for VxWorks? | DriverBuilder | 5.4 and below |
| 68 | I am trying to use DriveBuilder for VxWorks, but I fail downloading
windrvr.o to the target. I get a message that the following symbols
were unresolved: pciConfigInlong,
pciConfigOutLong.
|
DriverBuilder | 5.4 and below |
| 69 | I am using DriverBuilder for VxWorks. I loaded pci_diag.out and ran
pci_diag_main, but if failed with the following error message:
Error loading driver
|
DriverBuilder | 5.4 and below |
| 70 | What are the names of the entry points routines for your various DriverBuilder VxWorks sample programs: wddebug.out, pci_dump.out, etc.? | DriverBuilder | 5.4 and below |
| 71 | When running the PCI diagnostics application on a VxWorks machine, I get the following error message when trying to open the board: Card does not have all items expected for MyDrive. | DriverBuilder | 5.4 and below |
| 72 | I run pci_dump.out on a VxWorks machine and it shows my card
having all zeros in the BARs. But when I plug the card into a Windows PC,
the BARs have values.
|
DriverBuilder | — |
| 73 | WD_CardRegister() failed to lock a 32MB memory range on my PCI
card. The following messages appeared in the Debug Monitor log:Map_physical_mem_krnl: MmMapIoSpace failed ... Map_physical_mem_krnl: Try increasing the value of SystemPages ... |
WinDriver | — |
| 74 | How do I access the memory on my PCI card using WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 75 | How do I handle PCI Interrupts from a user mode WinDriver application? | WinDriver | — |
| 76 | How do I perform PCI DMA Writes from system memory to my card, using WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 77 | How do I perform Direct Block transfers from one PCI card to another? | WinDriver | — |
| 78 | Using WinDriver on Linux, I find that I need to reload the driver module (windrvr6.o) after each reboot. How can I set up dynamic loading of windrvr6.o? | WinDriver | — |
| 79 | Does WinDriver support 64-bit data transfers? | WinDriver | 5.2.0 and above |
| 80 | I have a PLX 9050 card, but I cannot access the card's memory with
WinDriver's PLX 9050 diagnostics utility. I am using the
P9050_Read/WriteXXX() functions.
|
WinDriver | 6.2.3 and below |
| 81 | The values of all the registers on my PLX 9050 card are zero. What could be the reason? | WinDriver | — |
| 82 | How can I use the PLX burst mode to increase the read speed? | WinDriver | — |
| 83 | When using multiple PLX 9050 cards I occasionally get the error Do_card_lock failed: item already in use, and pci_dump indicates a memory resource overlap in BAR0. I can sometimes resolve this by moving cards to other PCI slots. | WinDriver | 6.2.3 and below |
| 84 | WinDriver Upgrade: Version 6.0.x -> Version 6.2.x–7.x | WinDriver | 6.2.X–7.X |
| 85 | How do I extract the string descriptors contained in the Device and Configuration descriptor tables? | WinDriver | 6.2.2 and above |
| 86 | How do I detect that a USB device has been plugged in or disconnected? | WinDriver | — |
| 87 | How do I setup the transfer buffer to send a null data packet through the control pipe? | WinDriver | — |
| 88 | Can I write a driver for a USB hub or a USB Host Controller card using WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 89 | WinDriver driver distribution to a target Windows machine — versions 4.2.0–5.0.5b | WinDriver | 4.2.0–5.0.5b |
| 90 | Installing an INF file for PCI/USB devices on Windows Plug and Play systems in WinDriver versions 4.20–5.05 | WinDriver | 4.2.0–5.0.5 |
| 91 | Does WinDriver USB support isochronous streaming mode? | WinDriver | 9.0.0 and above |
| 92 | I used the DriverWizard to listen to the floppy disk interrupt (IRQ 6)
successfully on my Windows machine. But when I try to listen to the mouse
interrupt (IRQ 12) or to the keyboard interrupt (IRQ 1), I get the following
error message:
|
WinDriver | — |
| 93 | WinDriver installation on Linux RedHat 7.3 kernel version 2.4.18-4 gives this error: linux_wrappers.c:405: too few arguments to function 'do_munmap_Rd007fc14' make:*** [LINUX.2.4.18-3/linux_wrappers.o] | WinDriver | 5.2.1 and below |
| 94 | Does WinDriver support development of drivers for CardBus devices? | WinDriver | — |
| 95 | Does WinDriver support development for PCMCIA devices? | WinDriver | 6.2.2 and above |
| 96 | Is it possible to write my own parallel port driver using WinDriver?
|
WinDriver | — |
| 97 | Can WinDriver share the Parallel/Serial port with Windows' drivers? | WinDriver | — |
| 98 | Can I access the same device, simultaneously, from several WinDriver applications? | WinDriver | — |
| 99 | Programming the Serial Port — a brief introduction | WinDriver | — |
| 100 | The card I want to drive currently has an interrupt service routine in DOS/16-bit. How do I create a 32-bit interrupt routine for my card? | WinDriver | — |
| 101 | I need to be able to count the number of interrupts occurring and possibly call a routine every time an interrupt occurs. Is this possible with WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 102 | Does WinDriver poll the interrupt (Busy Wait)? | WinDriver | — |
| 103 | Can I write to disk files during an interrupt routine? | WinDriver | — |
| 104 | How can I read the value of the PCI interrupt status register from my WinDriver ISR, in order to determine, for example, which card generated the interrupt when the IRQ is shared between several devices? | WinDriver | — |
| 105 | Listening to PCI interrupts with the DriverWizard | WinDriver | — |
| 106 | How do I perform system or slave DMA using WinDriver? | WinDriver | — |
| 107 | When performing data transfers with WD_UsbTransfer(), what is the significance of the USB_SHORT_TRANSFER and USB_FULL_TRANSFER flags (versions 5.0.4–5.2.2)? | WinDriver | 5.0.4–5.2.2 |
| 108 | Using WinDriver with Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 | WinDriver | 5.0.5 and below |
| 109 | I fail to use windrvr.vxd from WinDriver v5.0.5 on Windows 98; the Debug Monitor has this message:
USB is not implemented on this OS. The windrvr.sys driver works well. |
WinDriver | 6.0.3 and below |
| 110 | When installing WinDriver v5.0.5 on my Linux machine, I get the following
warning: Warning:loading /lib/modules/misc/windriver.o will taint the kernel: no license |
WinDriver | 5.0.5 and below |
| 111 | Distributing your WinDriver v5.2.x based driver to a target Windows machine | WinDriver | 5.2.X |
| 112 | Porting a Kernel PlugIn project developed prior to version 10.3.0, to
support working with a |
WinDriver | — |
| 113 | Distributing your KernelDriver based driver to a target Windows machine (versions 5.2.x–6.1.x) | KernelDriver | 5.2.2–6.1.x |
| 114 | KernelDriver USB for Windows NT 4.0 (version 5.1.x) — Distributing Your Driver | KernelDriver | 5.1.X |
| 115 | How can I improve the rate of the interrupt handling when using DriverBuilder for VxWorks? | WinDriver | 5.2.2–5.4 |
| 116 | WinDriver Upgrade: Version 5.2.2 or earlier -> Version 6.0.2–7.x | WinDriver | 6.0.2–7.x |
| 117 | Distributing your WinDriver-based driver to a target Windows PC — versions 6.x–7.x | WinDriver | 6.x–7.x |
| 118 | I tried to generate Delphi code for my USB device with the DriverWizard from version 6.0.0 of WinDriver, but it seems that not all the relevant files are generated? | WinDriver | 6.0.0–6.0.1 |
| 119 | I used the DriverWizard from version 6.0.0 of WinDriver to generate
WDU_Transfer() works correctly, the specific transfer
functions — WDU_TransferBulk(), etc. — are not
working as expected. |
WinDriver | 6.0.0 |
| 120 | I have trouble compiling/building a Kernel PlugIn *.sys driver on a Windows 98/Me PC | WinDriver | 5.2.0–9.2.0 |
| 121 | What to do in case of of an OS crash on Windows when using WinDriver | WinDriver | — |
| 122 | PCI Transfers | WinDriver | — |
| 123 | Parallel ports on Windows XP | WinDriver | — |
| 124 | When trying to intsall WinDriver on my Windows PC I got the following error: 16-bit MS-DOS Subsystem path to the program that you are trying to start or install The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. |
WinDriver | 6.2.3 and below |
| 125 | Handling shared PCI interrupts in the Kernel PlugIn | WinDriver | — |
| 126 | Does WinDriver support the PCI Express (PCIe) bus? | WinDriver | — |
| 127 | WinDriver Upgrade: Version 6.2.x -> Version 7.x and above | WinDriver | 6.2.X–7.X and above |
| 128 | Does WinDriver support development of drivers for the .NET framework? | WinDriver | 7.0.1 and above |
| 129 | Reserving and locking physical memory on Windows | WinDriver | — |
| 130 | Distributing your WinDriver-based driver to a target Windows PC — WinDriver version 8.0.x | WinDriver | 8.0.x |
| 131 | Upgrading your WinDriver version | WinDriver | 8.x and above |
| 132 | Distributing your WinDriver-based driver to a target Windows PC | WinDriver | 8.1.x and above |

