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good resources for windows driver development

hello guys, I am a beginner to windows device driver development. So far I read Windows Internals book. I would like to know about any good resources available online so that I can start writing kernel drivers on my own. ...

USB and VMWare Workstation on Windows 7 x64

Hi, I am facing challenges with VMWare Workstation and Player on Windows 7 host. When a USB device is plugged in, the status bar doesn't display an icon for the recently plugged in device. But pre-configured devices such as mouse, keyboard, and CD player are available in the guest. If I start the Workstation with a device plugged in, ...

Does anybody know how to program the Luxeed LED keyboards directly?

I have a Luxeed, either the U5 or the RaMa series (not sure which, these people don't give you a lot to go on). I want to program the LEDs directly, but I have no idea how. Their software isn't that intuitive and seems limited anyway (though it's hard to tell, it being so unintuitive and all). Ideally it would be in Python (or possibl...

Py2Exe + FTDI driver

Is it at all possible to somehow include the FTDI driver in a py2exe installer? If not, are there any ways to combine the two together in one easy installer? ...

oracle 11g thin jdbc driver compatible with oracle 10g database?

Currently I'm using the ojdbc14.jar Oracle 10g thin driver to access an Oracle 10g database. I would like to upgrade the driver to the thin ojdbc6.jar Oracle 11g driver ahead of the actual upgrade of the DB server occurs. Using an 11g driver against the 10g DB seems fine in testing so far, but I'm wondering if anyone can confirm this O...

Why is C used for driver development rather than C#?

Possible Duplicate: C# driver development? Why do we use C for device driver development rather than C#? ...

Is there an easy way to build a 64-bit JD2XX DLL?

Hello, For accessing FTDI USB boards from Java applications, I'm using the JD2XX driver wrapper (JD2XX.dll). It works very fine on 32-bit systems, but when it is loaded from a 64-bit JVM, it says it is impossible for a 64-bit JVM to load a 32-bit DLL. Very understandable. To get past this little problem, I install a 32-bit JVM on the 64...

How can I bind a driver with a USB device?

hello. I am writing a USB device drive for linux. it's for a joystick. every time plug it in, linux loads a hid driver. is there a way to tell Linux to load mine when I plug it in? or at least not load the default one? I can echo the id in unbind of the default driver and echo it in bind of my driver; but I would like something more au...

dummynet driver for windows server 2008 64bit

Where I can find dummynet (ipfw) driver for 64bit windows machine? ...

Why won't my program read from a usb interrupt endpoint

Hello. I am writing a libusb program to interact with a usb gamepad. I found it, opened it, detached from kernel, claimed interface, and when I try to usb_interrupt_read it returns -110 (resource temporarily unavailable) what is doing on? also, usb_set_configuration fails, so I commented it out. do I need it? Why isn't it reading? i = ...

sql server driver name

Hi, How do I find what string is to be put in my ASP.NET application config file in the 'driver' attribute for the dataAccess node? So here is the node to be clear: <add name="somenamehere" driver="I want to know what goes in here???" connectionStringName="somenamehere"/> Its a MS SQL Server 2008. I am sorry if this has been answered...

Adobe Flash and TWAIN / DirectShow

Usually Adobe Flash applications can access any usb-webcam. I have a USB camera for microscopes which understands TWAIN and DirectShow. Is there a possibility to access the video data from this camera with flash? ...

How to patch wireless driver rtl8187 for 2.6.30 kernels?

I am using Backtrack 4 (installed on hdd), and I have an USB wifi adapter that uses rtl8187. I am trying to test wep cracking on my router (the signal is about 80%). I executed aireplay -9 and it shows "Injection is working 30/30 100%". But when start airodump to capture ivs, and aireplay -3 to inject, it only captures 1 iv every few s...

C#, DeviceIOControl: How to control mouse using it?

Hello, Does anybody could explain me how to use it to perform mouse input in driver level? I would like to know how to perform mouse (particular button) down/down/press events, also how to do move mouse and, finally, how scroll (horizontaly/verticaly) with mouse? I have already used SendInput, SendMessage and even MouseKeys (Windows a...

Windows 7 / 2008 R2 SP1 RemoteFX + Mirror Driver?

With the anticipated release of SP1 for the win 7 / 2008 R2. I was wondering as windows 7 currently does not support aero over a mirror video driver, I was wondering if this new service pack would enable that? (RemoteFX) via a mirror driver? http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2010/07/13/microsoft-remotefx-is-now...

Query embedded object with AND in mongodb

Let's say there is: {username : "tom1", address : { type : 0, year : 2001 }} {username : "tom2", address : { type : 1, year : 2011 }} {username : "tom3", address : { type : 0, year : 2031 }} {username : "tom4", address : { type : 1, year : 2002 }} I'm using Java Driver, how can I query: users who's address.type = 1 AND address.year > ...

Sending ATA commands to SATA Drive on Mac OS X

Any one please help on sending ATA commands to SATA Drive on Mac OS. As per the Apple docs, its not possible to send it from Application and is recommended to write a Logical Unit Driver. There is not much document on the same for ATA family. Provider class for SATA device is IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice. Please shed some light on writing...

kernel mode timer

How can I have a timer in kernel mode such that a specified function in my driver is called approximately every second on Windows XP and above? I should be able to use all functions (in particular ZwQuerySystemInformation) in the function. I do not need a high resolution timer or millisecond accuracy or anything like that, I just need a ...

{"Could not create the driver from NHibernate.Driver.DB2Driver."} I am using C#.net

We are using Nhibernate to connect to DB2 database. From my C# application. We are able to connect using Odbc and OleDB driver but we need to connect using IBM DB2 driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll). We are not able to connect using it. We are getting below error seems NHibernate is not able to create NHibernate.Driver.DB2Driver. {"Could not ...

Alternatives to writing an ODBC driver

We are storing allot of time series data into our own proprietary "database". In the next version of our system we want to give our users a simple query mechanism to extract the raw data from the database (as a complement to the reports our system can create) by using standard tools. I have looked at the possibility to write an ODBC dri...