Installing INF files

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Hi Friedrich

I need to install a driver which needs its inf file to be run. Should I
follow your guidelines in the attached posting to Arie?

http://www.lindersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=667&highlight=INF+files

Cheers

Richard

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Hi Richard,

> I need to install a driver which needs its inf file to be run. Should I
> follow your guidelines in the attached posting to Arie?

Yes, this should work fine.

The following is an interesting link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376957(VS.85).aspx

Does this help?

Friedrich

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Hi Friedrich

Thanks for link I shall check this out.

Cheers

Richard

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Also, be aware ("BEWARE" <g>) that Vista isn't happy with unsigned drivers,
and 64-bit won't run them at all (unless you hit F8 and change that on the
boot screen each time.)

Not hard to have a x.SYS file signed - the code-signing tools do that.

But what about signing an INF file?
It's a textfile, Dude, Can't sign no text files.....
So enter the realm of .CAT files, which can be signed...... If your vendor
hasn't supplied you with appropriate signed CAT files, you'll need to look
into creating and signing them yourself.

Jane

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> Also, be aware ("BEWARE" <g>) that Vista isn't happy with unsigned drivers,
> and 64-bit won't run them at all (unless you hit F8 and change that on the
> boot screen each time.)
>
> Not hard to have a x.SYS file signed - the code-signing tools do that.
>
> But what about signing an INF file?
> It's a textfile, Dude, Can't sign no text files.....

Jane,

You're the expert on these matters, but PAD Files
(http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/) can be signed and they are XML files.

I have attached a signed PAD file for Product Scope 7.

David

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David,
Can you possibly be saying that I replied with undue haste?? <G>
To be honest, I've not dealt with PAD files.

If you try to sign an .INF file using signtool it replies "The specified
file cannot be digitally signed". I've had to create .CAT files and sign
them to deal with unsigned drivers. If you know a way to sign .INF files
directly, I'd be interested to learn.
Of course, for 64-bit Vista, home-signed drivers won't work either... they
need to be cosigned by Microsoft.

Jane

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> David,
> Can you possibly be saying that I replied with undue haste?? <G>

Jane,

Well....not really, since you were responding to signing an .INF file, but
the general statement - "Can't sign no text files....." well, the PAD file
would be an exception, since it is XML text format.

XML - Extensible Markup Language is a simple, very flexible text format
derived from SGML (ISO 8879).

David

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Hi Jane

Thanks for the heads up. The INF file is my own so I'll check the CAT files
out as well.

Cheers

Richard

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Been a while since I've messed with it (I did make Vista OK with a 32-bit
USB dongle driver last year).
A quick google turned up this link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/4/f/34fa7f0d-92d6-4265-80b2-1541789699a9/Authenticode.doc
Here's another:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/64bitDriverSigning.doc

Use the word authenticode when you're googling or searching MSDN, etc.

Jane

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ok thanks

Richard Rose