Does anyone remember Tetradyne DriverX windows driver software?
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GeorgeMayfield wrote:
I have Ethernet and hope that will work
No, you cant use it. Has to be firewire or com port. You cant work locally either, because when you break the kernel, the whole machine locks. :) It is easy once you first do it, load symbols, load your code, step through it, see it working, and its a very powerful debugger too, windbg, very powerful. Once you get used to it you will use it for user mode debugging too and only use VS as a code editor. Seriously.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
OK, that sucks. My dev system is a laptop but I think it has firewire (sort of a trapezoid connector and USBish sized ???) and NO com or printer ports. My target is an industrial single board but with a PCI (not PCIx) bus and COM ports. Maybe I can use a USB to serial card for the laptop and hook that way. As we speak I am downloading the checked version of Win7 x86 and Win7 x64. More as I read the docs. Thanks.
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OK, that sucks. My dev system is a laptop but I think it has firewire (sort of a trapezoid connector and USBish sized ???) and NO com or printer ports. My target is an industrial single board but with a PCI (not PCIx) bus and COM ports. Maybe I can use a USB to serial card for the laptop and hook that way. As we speak I am downloading the checked version of Win7 x86 and Win7 x64. More as I read the docs. Thanks.
COM ports are rare these days, firewire less so but you can use a serial to USB (star, prolific) to put aa COMN port on a laptop. Firewire is quicker though, be aware of that. A firewire PCI card will be about the same as a usb-Serial converter (20 euros/25 dollars). Checked versions of the OS are useful when you really have to debug into the OS, but otherwise not, and I have never used them (I once downloaded just a checked ndis.sys though.) You can turn on debugging in various components of the kernel. Be ware of one thing, on 7 you need to enable debug printing, so google adding 'Debug Print Filter' to the registry. And when debugging your driver enable Verifier on it, selecting all but the ;low resource simulation' setting. You will get a lot of bugs probably, but these are all real bugs that need fixing, its just that verifier finds them before your customers do. SOS use it. Religiously, And when you have done all that, you want to sign the driver. And that, is another whole can of worms, believe me.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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COM ports are rare these days, firewire less so but you can use a serial to USB (star, prolific) to put aa COMN port on a laptop. Firewire is quicker though, be aware of that. A firewire PCI card will be about the same as a usb-Serial converter (20 euros/25 dollars). Checked versions of the OS are useful when you really have to debug into the OS, but otherwise not, and I have never used them (I once downloaded just a checked ndis.sys though.) You can turn on debugging in various components of the kernel. Be ware of one thing, on 7 you need to enable debug printing, so google adding 'Debug Print Filter' to the registry. And when debugging your driver enable Verifier on it, selecting all but the ;low resource simulation' setting. You will get a lot of bugs probably, but these are all real bugs that need fixing, its just that verifier finds them before your customers do. SOS use it. Religiously, And when you have done all that, you want to sign the driver. And that, is another whole can of worms, believe me.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
Thanks for tips. Take awhile to set this up. More when I know it.
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Looks OK. Your definitions fit with the code, time to run it up and see if it crashes! :)
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
I also have similar questions, and are waiting for answers