Or should that be a bus enumerator?
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@des.co.uk [mailto:xxxxx@des.co.uk]
Sent: 15 June 2001 12:48
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: How can an application dynamically load a WDM driver
under Windows 98?
Hi Rick,
I am trying to find help on the same subject, as yet I have been
unsuccessful. If you find anything can you let me know.
One thought we had was to write a bus arbitrator and try to get it to fool
the PnP manager into loading our driver. Haven’t investigated this at all so
I have no further clues etc. to offer.
Alun Carp
Driver Development Team Leader
Data Encryption Systems Limited
-----Original Message-----
From: rick_knox@uk.ibm.com [mailto:rick_knox@uk.ibm.com]
Sent: 15 June 2001 08:39
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] How can an application dynamically load a WDM driver under
Windows 98?
I have an application which was originally written for NT4 which
dynamically loads its kernel-mode device driver using the SC Manager
technique which is well documented here.
I now have to support Windows 98 and have modified the driver by replaciing
NTDDK.H with WDM.H and the driver seems to work fine on Win 98 - providing I
put it in the registry and reboot. However, I really
need to load and start it dynamically - a reboot is unacceptable.
I’ve tried the CreateFile and VXDLDR IOCtl methods which are used
to load VxDs but neither works on a WDM driver - how should an
application load a WDM driver under Windows 98?
By the way, the driver does not handle any physical device - it is just
there to allow me to snoop on the hardware of the computer. It therefore
does not care about PnP or power management - nor is it associated with any
particular bus (so I can’t rely on a bus driver to load it).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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