Installing a driver as a service

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to install a driver?
It's a driver I made and it is just a binary. I don't have any .inf
files. Someone suggested earlier that you could do it as a service...
When I tried his method though, I get the error message:

[SC] StartService FAILED 1058:

The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because
it has no enabled devices associated with it.

The driver that I am trying to install is just a simple keyboard
driver, the one that comes with the Windows DDK. It's called kbfiltr.

i first created the service such as:

"sc create kbfilter binpath= c:\kbfiltr.sys type= kernel"

then I executed: "sc start kbfilter"

no luck..

anyone know what I could do?

thanks

What type of driver is it? If it does not touch hardware, and is not PnP
you can use the Service API's, but if it uses hardware with plug and play
you need an inf. You can look at the DevCon sample in the DDK if you want a
way to install the driver programatically.


--
Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
http://www.windrvr.com
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"sleeper" <> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to install a driver?
> It's a driver I made and it is just a binary. I don't have any .inf
> files. Someone suggested earlier that you could do it as a service...
> When I tried his method though, I get the error message:
>
> [SC] StartService FAILED 1058:
>
> The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because
> it has no enabled devices associated with it.
>
> The driver that I am trying to install is just a simple keyboard
> driver, the one that comes with the Windows DDK. It's called kbfiltr.
>
> i first created the service such as:
>
> "sc create kbfilter binpath= c:\kbfiltr.sys type= kernel"
>
> then I executed: "sc start kbfilter"
>
> no luck..
>
> anyone know what I could do?
>
> thanks
>

Hi mate

> The driver that I am trying to install is just a simple keyboard
> driver, the one that comes with the Windows DDK. It's called kbfiltr.

I am afraid you need an .inf file here - after all, kbdfilter is
low-level filter driver that has to get loaded before kbd class driver
does. As Don told you already, you can get away with creating a driver
service only if you driver does not deal with hardware and PnP, and
this is not the case here.

> I don't have any .inf files.

How come???? If you look carefully, you will see that kbdfilter sample
comes with .inf file

Anton Bassov

sleeper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to install a driver?
> It's a driver I made and it is just a binary. I don't have any .inf
> files. Someone suggested earlier that you could do it as a service...
> When I tried his method though, I get the error message:
>
> [SC] StartService FAILED 1058:
>
> The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because
> it has no enabled devices associated with it.
>
> The driver that I am trying to install is just a simple keyboard
> driver, the one that comes with the Windows DDK. It's called kbfiltr.
>
> i first created the service such as:
>
> "sc create kbfilter binpath= c:\kbfiltr.sys type= kernel"
>
> then I executed: "sc start kbfilter"
>
> no luck..
>
> anyone know what I could do?
>
> thanks

Thanks guys for the help. I will try this out.


anton bassov wrote:
> Hi mate
>
> > The driver that I am trying to install is just a simple keyboard
> > driver, the one that comes with the Windows DDK. It's called kbfiltr.
>
> I am afraid you need an .inf file here - after all, kbdfilter is
> low-level filter driver that has to get loaded before kbd class driver
> does. As Don told you already, you can get away with creating a driver
> service only if you driver does not deal with hardware and PnP, and
> this is not the case here.
>
> > I don't have any .inf files.
>
> How come???? If you look carefully, you will see that kbdfilter sample
> comes with .inf file
>
> Anton Bassov
>
> sleeper wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to install a driver?
> > It's a driver I made and it is just a binary. I don't have any .inf
> > files. Someone suggested earlier that you could do it as a service...
> > When I tried his method though, I get the error message:
> >
> > [SC] StartService FAILED 1058:
> >
> > The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because
> > it has no enabled devices associated with it.
> >
> > The driver that I am trying to install is just a simple keyboard
> > driver, the one that comes with the Windows DDK. It's called kbfiltr.
> >
> > i first created the service such as:
> >
> > "sc create kbfilter binpath= c:\kbfiltr.sys type= kernel"
> >
> > then I executed: "sc start kbfilter"
> >
> > no luck..
> >
> > anyone know what I could do?
> >
> > thanks

> "sc create kbfilter binpath= c:\kbfiltr.sys type= kernel"

No, keyboard filters are PnP devices, and will also require the UpperFilters
entry for Keyboard class.

Also you must reboot after this installation, since the PS/2 keyboard stack is
not stoppable.

--
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation

http://www.storagecraft.com