Legacy driver does not appear in the W2k driver manager

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There was another question concerning the same problem in April but I’m new
to the list and did not find an answer.

I also have a working NT4 ISA legacy driver that I recompiled with the W2k
DDK. The driver can be loaded and seen in W2ks SoftwareEnvironment /
Drivers, but neither appears in the device manager (with hidden devs on)
nor can be started with OSR tools or ‘net start mydriver’. The error mesage
is ‘no sufficient resources’. I tried with IRQ and DMA channel excluded
(needed with NT4) and included in the BIOS, PNP OS on and off, I filled in
all the registry entries (except enum) by hand, but also to no avail.

There was another hint I would need a [LogConfig] section in an .inf file,
does anyobody has an example?

Thanks in advance for answers

Michael

Michael U. Müller
Abt. Biomedizinische Optik
Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung
Jahnstraße 29
D-69120 Heidelberg

The original April question was:

I have taken over support of a legacy driver that was written for NT 4 and
am now attempting to port it to Windows 2000. I have successfully compiled
the driver with the Windows 2000 DDK and am now attempting to install the
driver. If I use the same installation program on Windows 2000 as NT 4 all
of the proper registry settings are made, at least all of the ones I know
about. But when I go into the Computer Management screen and go to the
Device manager and tell it to display “Hidden Devices” I can not find my
driver. I know I must be missing something very simple to get this to be
visible, but I don’t know exactly where to look. I have been trying to go
through the DDK TechNet and the books I have but so far to now avail. If I
take the same install program and run it on NT 4 the driver appears and is
available to start/stop, etc. and life is good.

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I am struggling with legacy questions as well. However my driver does show
up in device manager. I assume you are looking under the “nonpnp” node
which shows up when view hidden drivers is turned on. My “installation”
involves copying the *.sys file to the drivers directory and doing a
CreateService from my GUI configuration program. Seems to work the same in
both NT4 and Win2K so far. This probably is not much help, but at least it
shows there is hope.

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