FindHWIDS v3.2s - The INF Searching, Hardware ID Exporter (Page 9 of 15)

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, I had already posted this in the third party pack main download thread to have them fix the INF. But it hasn't happened yet.

Post #220 on page 9 http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic. … 87&p=9

Last edited by stamandster (2009-06-14 03:51:17)

Mr_Smartepants, do I have access to upload the third party packs?

Hi all,

If you download this tool from Microsoft website (Pnpids.exe) and place setupapi.dll (version from windows 2000) in the same folder where you extracted too, the tool will also work under Windows XP.

Direct download:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ … X86_EN.exe

I doubt that a win2k tool is aware of things like 64bit sections and vista sections ect...
  Plus we can't adjust it if needed

Thanks for pointing it out to us... it is always nice to be aware of all available options!!!

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v3.2j @ 2009-06-22 -
-- Added filters for processor arch and os version, you must select BOTH an OS version and processor architecture
-- Fix scan count again, will only count true/real INF files
-- Sysprep will not automatically select only currently installed hardware, so a user can select the OS Version and Processor Arch offline if needed

Plus, source has been released!

Thanks for the comments. I do think that would be a nice feature. Right now people are exporting versions of downloaded drivers to see what hwids are in the drivers and then comparing them to earlier version using something like winmerge.

I think it'd actually be a nice idea to implement something like it scans the driverpacks (and you can add the windows inf folder too, perhaps scanning the windows folder first?) and it'll output an unsupported drivers list of your current hardware.

I understand your plight

I think all you have to do is go to the appropriate forum for the pack you want an update on type something like [REQ] Atheros Driver XXX.XX
then be as detailed as possible on the hwids you are looking to add drivers for.

The issue is this file

\D\3\M\S\1\mdmhamrw.inf

[MODEL_SECTION]
...
%Modem1%=Modem1,PCI\VEN_10B9&DEV_5450;                    ALI1535 [Primary MC]
%Modem1%=Modem1,PCI\VEN_10B9&DEV_5450&SUBSYS_4C225349;    ALI1535 [Secondary MC] and SmartRiser56

The issue comes into play because whomever edited the file added the brackets to the comments. That screws stuff up. It's really easy to just edit out the brackets in the comments.

Whomever is building the packs should edit the inf to fix this issue.

Last edited by stamandster (2009-07-06 09:13:59)

Yeah, it's not so much the reading of the line but the regular expression that searches for sections. The regular section ini reading function in Autoit won't support larger inf files. So I had to adapt one from the autoit forum.

At some point i'll write something into it but I haven't found it necessary yet. I mean this is one case in many thousands.

If you want to download the source Jeff and see where I can improve on that scan functionality be my guest I would be great full for the help.

Last edited by stamandster (2009-07-06 11:06:45)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/driverf … source.rar

This is the source. You should be able to find your way to the function that scans the sections. It's uses regular expression to find the beginning and end of the section.

It's most likely because the drivers aren't signed. It's a normal function. You can try turning driver signing off. This is the reason why the driverpacks team coder wrote in a driver signing supression function.

Also, the sysprep.inf export wasn't designed so that you could do every single storage driver but to mitigate the adding of drivers you know will work in the systems you will want to deploy to.

What I would do is go by the massstorage ini file that gets extracted by the driverpacks to figure out what drivers can work together in what OS. At some point I'll write a function to do this.

Thanks for the help guys much appreciated.