installing battery miniclass driver in windows XP

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I am developing a battery miniclass driver in windows xp embedded OS.
As I am using Windows XP as development environment, I want to know
procedure to install the driver, having battery.inf ans smbbatt.sys
files.
 
vinay said:
I am developing a battery miniclass driver in windows xp embedded OS.
As I am using Windows XP as development environment, I want to know
procedure to install the driver, having battery.inf ans smbbatt.sys
files.
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You're attempting to develop device drivers and you don't know how to
install a driver? Interestng challenge, kind of a cart and horse thing.

Try starting here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790231.aspx

and here,
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms789308.aspx
"Installing a Battery Driver"


Googling "installing miniclass driver" will also lead you to some other
resources.


HTH
-pk
 
You're attempting to develop device drivers and you don't know how to
install a driver?   Interestng challenge, kind of a cart and horse thing..

Try starting here:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790231.aspx

and here,http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms789308.aspx
"Installing a Battery Driver"

Googling "installing miniclass driver" will also lead you to some other
resources.

HTH
-pk
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Hi PK
Thanks for the valuable inputs you have given.
I went through the second link - "installing a battery driver", which
tells about the .inf file entries perticular to my driver. Now I have
the battery.inf file with all those entries.
Next, If I just right click on battery.inf and say install, will it
install the battery miniclass driver?
or do I need to use "Add Hardware wizard" for the same?
or do I need to write my own installation application as given in this
link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790231.aspx for
installing the driver?
 
Hi PK
Thanks for the valuable inputs you have given.
I went through the second link - "installing a battery driver", which
tells about the .inf file entries perticular to my driver. Now I have
the battery.inf file with all those entries.
Next, If I just right click on battery.inf and say install, will it
install the battery miniclass driver?
or do I need to use "Add Hardware wizard" for the same?
or do I need to write my own installation application as given in this
linkhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790231.aspx for
installing the driver?- Hide quoted text -

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Hi PK

I came to know about a way to install it. Device console (DEVCON.EXE)
tool can be used for the same.

Now I have written .inf file as specified in DDK documentation for
installing a battery driver. Howeven when I install it using
devcon.exe, I get blue screen in my PC.

As the DDK documentation says, battery driver will use smbclass.sys
and smbhc.sys driver files that are provided by microsoft itself. But
in my PC I could not see those driver files in Windows
\system32\drivers directory. Is that the cause to get blue screen. ie
requied driver stack is not available.

I hope you will help me to resolve this problem.

regards
Vinay
 
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