NDIS miniport driver installer hangs on Windows XP

Hi NDIS specialists,

I am writing a NDIS minport driver based on the WINDDK NDISWDM driver.
I am talking to the hardware via an second driver using callbacks.
The driver seems to work fine but sometimes the devcon.exe tool from the
WINDDK\tools directory hangs when installing an driver update.
I use the devcon as explained in the readme file of the NDISWDM driver
example from the WINDDK.

The taskmanager points to explorer.exe. After killing the explorer the
system is running again.

Any idea?

Thanks

CVVT

Hi Burkhardt,

Thanks for the answer.
I unchecked all items except the tcp/ip protocol to unbind all unnecessary
items but still the problem remains te same.

Devcon does not manage to uninstall the driver.
The "devcon remove" command hangs.

Once the problem occured, i have to reboot the pc.
Manually updating the driver via the control panel, network applet does not
work either.


"Burkhardt Braun" wrote:

> On 26 Okt., 18:06, cvvt <c...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Hi NDIS specialists,
> >
> > I am writing a NDIS minport driver based on the WINDDK NDISWDM driver.
> > I am talking to the hardware via an second driver using callbacks.
> > The driver seems to work fine but sometimes the devcon.exe tool from the
> > WINDDK\tools directory hangs when installing an driver update.
> > I use the devcon as explained in the readme file of the NDISWDM driver
> > example from the WINDDK.
> >
> > The taskmanager points to explorer.exe. After killing the explorer the
> > system is running again.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > CVVT
>
> Hello,
> I once had the same effect until I removed another driver from the
> list of used items in the network control panel applet.
> IIRC it was the network monitor driver.
>
> Good luck
> Burkhardt Braun
>
>
> .
>