problem of installing XP driver

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James Lee

Hi,

I install ORiNOCO 802.11ag ComboCard driver in my XPe
image. I get an error message when it goes to
launch, "Unable to open WMI namespace, WMI Initialization
failed". Can anyone help me? Thanks!
 
Don't know anything about your driver but have you included WMI related
components ("WMI Core", etc.) in to your image?
Also, you haven't mentioned how you installed the driver. I'd suggest you to
integrate it in your image with the proper way through CD:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/community/tips/xp/thirdparty.asp.

JL> Hi,

JL> I install ORiNOCO 802.11ag ComboCard driver in my XPe image. I
JL> get an error message when it goes to launch, "Unable to open WMI
JL> namespace, WMI Initialization failed". Can anyone help me? Thanks!
 
Hi,

After booting my XPe image, I want to setup the driver.
I double-click setup.exe of this driver.
While finish installing this driver, I get error message
"Unable to open WMI namespace, WMI Initialization
failed". I try to run setup.exe in XP Professional. No
error message happened. So it must lacks any
components ("WMI Core", etc.) in my XPe image.
Can you know which components my image lacks?
 
James,

Sorry, I don't know which exactly components are missing from your image to
get the driver working.

That is a good indication, though, that you could install the driver
properly on XP Pro. That basically means you won't have real problems
integrating it in to your XPe image.

This is not unusual to have a new driver integrating under XPe. Many folks
here have done it successfully for many drivers. I guess, the key was just a
reverse engineering drivers to know all their dependencies, registry keys,
files, etc. So you can do.
Please check the link I mentioned in the previous reply to this thread. You
can also use Regmon/FileMon tools from www.sysinternals.com, InCtrl5
(www.xpefiles.com), etc. And you may also start from importing your driver's
..inf file in CD. To get the .inf, properly unzip your driver's installation
package (setup.exe) into a temp dir (again, use FileMon to spy on the
setup.exe to get all info you need).
Another way to get your driver working could be creating a new component
from the driver installed on XP Pro. But again, you would need to know all
the driver's files and registry keys and all its system dependencies.

If you face any problems integrating the driver in to your image and you
don't see the answer in XPe docs/tips/google, you may post your questions
here.

Good luck,
KM
 
Hello James

I fixed this by adding the WMI components from the Component Manager. My
image already had the WMI Core, but there were several other WMI parts that
were not installed. We were under a time crunch so we added them all as we
did not need to worry about space so I am not sure exactly which ones did
the trick but we were able to eliminate that message with the Orinoco card.

Cheers

paul
 
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