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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.

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Macnica Networks Corp.
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Syota Shinogi
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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
 
Am 23.06.2005 09:11:03 schrieb Shinogi Syota:
rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %inf_filename%
Click to expand...

This approach does NOT work for hardware PnP INFs.
 
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