Installing device driver

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Hello,

I have an application that needs to install a device driver in the
target computer among installing other files. I am using InstallShield for
installation and I have InstallShield professional. It seems that there is
no utility in this version of InstallShield for installing device driver. Is
there?



What is the simplest way to install a driver when you have the inf file for
the device?

Is there any tutorial about this?



Any help appreciated.



Best regards

 

[Guest]

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Look at the DevCon sample in the DDK. In general you need to copy your
files to a directory and use SetupCopyOEMInf to copy the INF file to the
windows directory.


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"ma" <ma@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have an application that needs to install a device driver in the
> target computer among installing other files. I am using InstallShield for
> installation and I have InstallShield professional. It seems that there is
> no utility in this version of InstallShield for installing device driver.
> Is there?
>
>
>
> What is the simplest way to install a driver when you have the inf file
> for the device?
>
> Is there any tutorial about this?
>
>
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>

 

[Guest]

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And that ( SetupCopyOEMInf and maybe other if you need ) you can call
from InstallShield too , but you need in wrap into function which will sit
in
external dll. IS allow you to call functions from custom dlls
Arkady

"Don Burn" <burn@stopspam.acm.org> wrote in message
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> Look at the DevCon sample in the DDK. In general you need to copy your
> files to a directory and use SetupCopyOEMInf to copy the INF file to the
> windows directory.
>
>
> --
> Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
> Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
> Remove StopSpam from the email to reply
>
>
>
> "ma" <ma@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:eOaaHwydFHA.2664@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an application that needs to install a device driver in the
>> target computer among installing other files. I am using InstallShield
>> for installation and I have InstallShield professional. It seems that
>> there is no utility in this version of InstallShield for installing
>> device driver. Is there?
>>
>>
>>
>> What is the simplest way to install a driver when you have the inf file
>> for the device?
>>
>> Is there any tutorial about this?
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.development.device.drivers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?)

Also you can try DifX v 2 -
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/install/DIFxtls.mspx
Sometimes it works well, though your mileage can vary.

--PA

"Arkady Frenkel" wrote:
> And that ( SetupCopyOEMInf and maybe other if you need ) you can call
> from InstallShield too , but you need in wrap into function which will sit
> in
> external dll. IS allow you to call functions from custom dlls
> Arkady
>
> "Don Burn" <burn@stopspam.acm.org> wrote in message
> news:kAdue.7032$mD6.2677@fe07.lga...
> > Look at the DevCon sample in the DDK. In general you need to copy your
> > files to a directory and use SetupCopyOEMInf to copy the INF file to the
> > windows directory.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
> > Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
> > Remove StopSpam from the email to reply
> >
> >
> >
> > "ma" <ma@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> > news:eOaaHwydFHA.2664@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have an application that needs to install a device driver in the
> >> target computer among installing other files. I am using InstallShield
> >> for installation and I have InstallShield professional. It seems that
> >> there is no utility in this version of InstallShield for installing
> >> device driver. Is there?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What is the simplest way to install a driver when you have the inf file
> >> for the device?
> >>
> >> Is there any tutorial about this?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Any help appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.development.device.drivers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?)

How about to create an inf file for your device driver and
use a batch containing the command as follow?

rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %inf_filename%

And kick this bat from Install Shield.

--
===================
Macnica Networks Corp.
Application Tech. 2nd Sec.
Syota Shinogi
===================


"ma" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have an application that needs to install a device driver in the
> target computer among installing other files. I am using InstallShield for
> installation and I have InstallShield professional. It seems that there is
> no utility in this version of InstallShield for installing device driver. Is
> there?
>
>
>
> What is the simplest way to install a driver when you have the inf file for
> the device?
>
> Is there any tutorial about this?
>
>
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.development.device.drivers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?)

Good suggestion but why to write a batch file? why not run rundll32.exe
directly from installshield?
How this instruction is working? what is the parameters and where can I read
more about this?

Best regards


"Shinogi Syota" <ShinogiSyota@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How about to create an inf file for your device driver and
> use a batch containing the command as follow?
>
> rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %inf_filename%
>
> And kick this bat from Install Shield.
>
> --
> ===================
> Macnica Networks Corp.
> Application Tech. 2nd Sec.
> Syota Shinogi
> ===================
>
>
> "ma" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an application that needs to install a device driver in the
>> target computer among installing other files. I am using InstallShield
>> for
>> installation and I have InstallShield professional. It seems that there
>> is
>> no utility in this version of InstallShield for installing device driver.
>> Is
>> there?
>>
>>
>>
>> What is the simplest way to install a driver when you have the inf file
>> for
>> the device?
>>
>> Is there any tutorial about this?
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>>
>>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.development.device.drivers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?)

Am 23.06.2005 09:11:03 schrieb Shinogi Syota:

> rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %inf_filename%

This approach does NOT work for hardware PnP INFs.

--
Ralf.