installing battery miniclass driver in windows XP

[vinay]

I am developing a battery miniclass driver in windows xp embedded OS.
As I am using Windows XP as development environment, I want to know
procedure to install the driver, having battery.inf ans smbbatt.sys
files.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

"vinay" <ccvinay@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a69be4e5-5444-4052-aff9-624fdf62163c@x29g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>I am developing a battery miniclass driver in windows xp embedded OS.
> As I am using Windows XP as development environment, I want to know
> procedure to install the driver, having battery.inf ans smbbatt.sys
> files.

You're attempting to develop device drivers and you don't know how to
install a driver? Interestng challenge, kind of a cart and horse thing.

Try starting here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790231.aspx

and here,
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms789308.aspx
"Installing a Battery Driver"


Googling "installing miniclass driver" will also lead you to some other
resources.


HTH
-pk

 

[vinay]

On Dec 24, 9:56 am, "Patrick Keenan" <t...@dev.null> wrote:
> "vinay" <ccvi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:a69be4e5-5444-4052-aff9-624fdf62163c@x29g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I am developing a battery miniclass driver in windows xp embedded OS.
> > As I am using Windows XP as development environment, I want to know
> > procedure to install the driver, having battery.inf ans smbbatt.sys
> > files.
>
> You're attempting to develop device drivers and you don't know how to
> install a driver?   Interestng challenge, kind of a cart and horse thing..
>
> Try starting here:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790231.aspx
>
> and here,http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms789308.aspx
> "Installing a Battery Driver"
>
> Googling "installing miniclass driver" will also lead you to some other
> resources.
>
> HTH
> -pk

Hi PK
Thanks for the valuable inputs you have given.
I went through the second link - "installing a battery driver", which
tells about the .inf file entries perticular to my driver. Now I have
the battery.inf file with all those entries.
Next, If I just right click on battery.inf and say install, will it
install the battery miniclass driver?
or do I need to use "Add Hardware wizard" for the same?
or do I need to write my own installation application as given in this
link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790231.aspx for
installing the driver?