NDIS Miniport Installation

NTDEV
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Hi,

I have a simple question regarding installation of an ndis miniport we have wriiten and can be manually installed ok and uninstalled by dpinst. The miniport’s lower edge is connected to a pcmcia device. The quesiton is do we actually need a coinstaller to install this device? the device does not need any special parameters and has its own vendor id etc… If we do indeed need a co-installer what samples are there around for a good starting point?

The problem we are facing is that installaware provides a dpinst installation, but when we use it via installaware the uninstall process breaks and we can not re-install the product, has anybody encountered this issue? if we perform a manual call to dpinst it works perfectly?

Thanks
Steve

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Ok we have investigated a bit further, and the manual log for dpinst says when it works driver is “marked for reinstall”. Can anybody explain what this means and what exactly it does to mark the driver as re-install?

Thanks

Steve