non-plug and play devices (giveio or direct i-o)

[Guest]

Hi

I am trying to get a driver installed on a XPe target image which alows applications to directly access ports on the hardware (for control of the parallel port and BIOS watchdog ports). The driver I'm trying to install is GiveIO.sys. On a PC with XP Pro, the driver (once installed) appears under 'non-plug and play devices' in device manager, but on my XPe image, I can't get any 'non-plug and play' devices to appear

I am assuming that there is a component missing from my XPe build that is a dependancy for non-plug and play devices, but I can't find any appropriate componetn

Do you know what components are needed for non-plug and play device drivers

Any help would be more than appreciated
Cheers
MalP

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi,

Use google group to search for solution:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=microsoft.
public.windowsxp.embedded

You need to populate registry entries to enable non PnP driver to work. This
you can do by manually creating component for your driver. (not just by
importing inf file)

Regards,
Slobodan

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Hi,

I am trying to get a driver installed on a XPe target image which alows

applications to directly access ports on the hardware (for control of the
parallel port and BIOS watchdog ports). The driver I'm trying to install is
GiveIO.sys. On a PC with XP Pro, the driver (once installed) appears under
'non-plug and play devices' in device manager, but on my XPe image, I can't
get any 'non-plug and play' devices to appear.

I am assuming that there is a component missing from my XPe build that is

a dependancy for non-plug and play devices, but I can't find any appropriate
componetn.