Installing device driver

[ma]

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

 

[Don Burn]

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.

 

[Guest]

Also you can try DifX v 2 -
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/install/DIFxtls.mspx
Sometimes it works well, though your mileage can vary.

--PA

 

[Arkady Frenkel]

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

 

[Guest]

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.
Application Tech. 2nd Sec.
Syota Shinogi
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[ma]

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

 

[Ralf Buschmann]

Am 23.06.2005 09:11:03 schrieb Shinogi Syota:

rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %inf_filename%

This approach does NOT work for hardware PnP INFs.