re-installing test driver (NDSI 5.0 Miniport - Win 2000)

Hi,

I am writing a miniport NIC driver (NDIS 5.0) for Win 2000. I have to
frequently re-install it on the target m/c. I tried using ‘update driver’
from ‘Device Manager->Network adapters->(card properties)’. Win2K does not
use the latest INF file that I provide in the install disk. Instead it
always uses the ‘oem?.inf / oem?.pnf’ files in ‘winnt\inf’ that it creates
when the driver was first installed. So I have to uninstall the driver,
delete the oem?.?nf files and then reinstall the driver.

Is there any way I can reinstall the driver using the latest INF from the
install disk, without all this work around?

NOTE: Since my driver not signed, Win2k seems to ignore the date in the
‘DriverVer’ entry in the install section of INF. And it always considers its
own copy of INF to be the latest.

tia,
vikas


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Couldn’t you simply update the binary and reboot? That’s what I do with
a filter driver.


James Antognini
IBM Watson Research


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