Silent installation of NDIS intermediate driver

NTDEV
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Hello,

We have an NDIS intermediate driver and would like to know if it’s possible to install it on a Vista/Win 7 64 bit PC without any warnings.

We cross signed the catalog and the driver but we still see a warning window that pops up during installation.

I went through the posts here but I could not get a clear answer about this.

Thanks for your help.

Makhlouf

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Hi,
Unless you WHQL sign the driver, the warning pop-ups are going to come out,
i guess.

FYI,
There are “unclassified” whql test cases to run on Intermediate driver
before WHQL submission.

Regards
Satheesh

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have an NDIS intermediate driver and would like to know if it’s possible
> to install it on a Vista/Win 7 64 bit PC without any warnings.
>
> We cross signed the catalog and the driver but we still see a warning
> window that pops up during installation.
>
> I went through the posts here but I could not get a clear answer about
> this.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Makhlouf
>
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3

Thanks Satheesh for the answer.

I was under the impression that the WHQL certification was only needed for XP systems. And that Vista and later systems can do with just cross signing the drivers.

Thanks for the help.

Makhlouf.

4

xxxxx@hotmail.com wrote:

Thanks Satheesh for the answer.

I was under the impression that the WHQL certification was only needed for XP systems. And that Vista and later systems can do with just cross signing the drivers.

No, you need both. You need WHQL for ALL the operating systems, and in
addition you need the signing plus cross certificate for 64-bit Vista
and Windows 7.

There’s an article in The NT Insider this month that describes this.

–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Thanks for the clarification and the article that is very helpful.

Makhlouf,