WHQL/HCT woes

OSR_Community_User · May 15, 2002, 11:47am

Hi,
I’m just wondering what everybody’s experiences are with the WHQL submission process.

I’ve been spending a lot of time (and a lot of the company’s money) getting drivers through. I got one set of drivers through and then I needed to make a small change. So I had to re-submit and I’m meeting a lot of resistance. Problems that were let through on the first submission are preventing the second submission from going through. Also, I’m submitting a WAN device and they’re reviewing it as a LAN device. It’s really frustrating. I don’t know if I’m getting a different tester in WHQL each time I submit or what’s going on in there but I’m beginning to think that I’d be better off spending my time reverse engineering CAT files to generate my own signatures.

Another gripe is that it’s on west coast USA. Us Europeans are heading home when they’re just getting in. A European WHQ Lab would be nice. That might speed the process up.

Am I alone?

OSR_Community_User · May 15, 2002, 11:55am

Microsoft, are you listening ? An European WHQL Lab would be ever so nice !
Specially if it is close to a major airline hub such as Heathrow, Charles de
Gaulle, Frankfurt, Schiphol, for example. Or, on second thoughts, maybe
St.Moritz or Nice ?

Alberto.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Rhodes [mailto:xxxxx@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:41 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] WHQL/HCT woes

Hi,
I’m just wondering what everybody’s experiences are with the WHQL submission
process.

I’ve been spending a lot of time (and a lot of the company’s money) getting
drivers through. I got one set of drivers through and then I needed to make
a small change. So I had to re-submit and I’m meeting a lot of resistance.
Problems that were let through on the first submission are preventing the
second submission from going through. Also, I’m submitting a WAN device and
they’re reviewing it as a LAN device. It’s really frustrating. I don’t know
if I’m getting a different tester in WHQL each time I submit or what’s going
on in there but I’m beginning to think that I’d be better off spending my
time reverse engineering CAT files to generate my own signatures.

Another gripe is that it’s on west coast USA. Us Europeans are heading home
when they’re just getting in. A European WHQ Lab would be nice. That might
speed the process up.

Am I alone?

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OSR_Community_User · May 15, 2002, 12:05pm

Berlin
And I’ll think over getting my drivers WHQL’d.

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Moreira, Alberto [mailto:xxxxx@compuware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:52 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: WHQL/HCT woes

Microsoft, are you listening ? An European WHQL Lab would be ever so nice !
Specially if it is close to a major airline hub such as Heathrow, Charles de
Gaulle, Frankfurt, Schiphol, for example. Or, on second thoughts, maybe
St.Moritz or Nice ?

Alberto.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Rhodes [mailto:xxxxx@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:41 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] WHQL/HCT woes

Hi,
I’m just wondering what everybody’s experiences are with the WHQL submission
process.

I’ve been spending a lot of time (and a lot of the company’s money) getting
drivers through. I got one set of drivers through and then I needed to make
a small change. So I had to re-submit and I’m meeting a lot of resistance.
Problems that were let through on the first submission are preventing the
second submission from going through. Also, I’m submitting a WAN device and
they’re reviewing it as a LAN device. It’s really frustrating. I don’t know
if I’m getting a different tester in WHQL each time I submit or what’s going
on in there but I’m beginning to think that I’d be better off spending my
time reverse engineering CAT files to generate my own signatures.

Another gripe is that it’s on west coast USA. Us Europeans are heading home
when they’re just getting in. A European WHQ Lab would be nice. That might
speed the process up.

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OSR_Community_User · May 15, 2002, 3:58pm

>I don’t know if I’m getting a different tester in WHQL each time I submit

or what’s going on in there but I’m beginning to think that I’d be better
off spending my time reverse engineering CAT files to generate my own
signatures.

I assume signing a driver means Microsoft cryptographically signs the
driver with their private RSA key, which generates the CAT file. It’s
essentially IMPOSSIBLE to generate this without the private key, which only
Microsoft has. Knowing the format of a CAT file does not allow you to
generate the correct data in a CAT file.

Jan

Norbert_Kawulski · May 16, 2002, 3:46am

The Question is: Can somebody on this list make microsoft listen ?
As I understood, OSR/Peter G. Viscarola has connections
to the DDK guys. The DDK guys may have contact to WHQL group…

The other alternative is to collect demands for a european WHQL at a
central adress ( via E-mail) and then forward it to xxxxx@microsoft.com

What do you think ?

My vote is for Fuerteventura ( lots of silicon at the beach)

“I took an IQ test and the results were negative.”

Microsoft, are you listening ? An European WHQL Lab would be ever so nice !
Specially if it is close to a major airline hub such as Heathrow, Charles de
Gaulle, Frankfurt, Schiphol, for example. Or, on second thoughts, maybe
St.Moritz or Nice ?

Alberto.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Rhodes [mailto:xxxxx@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:41 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: WHQL/HCT woes

Hi,
I’m just wondering what everybody’s experiences are with the WHQL submission
process.

I’ve been spending a lot of time (and a lot of the company’s money) getting
drivers through. I got one set of drivers through and then I needed to make
a small change. So I had to re-submit and I’m meeting a lot of resistance.
Problems that were let through on the first submission are preventing the
second submission from going through. Also, I’m submitting a WAN device and
they’re reviewing it as a LAN device. It’s really frustrating. I don’t know
if I’m getting a different tester in WHQL each time I submit or what’s going
on in there but I’m beginning to think that I’d be better off spending my
time reverse engineering CAT files to generate my own signatures.

Another gripe is that it’s on west coast USA. Us Europeans are heading home
when they’re just getting in. A European WHQ Lab would be nice. That might
speed the process up.

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