First of all.. Sorry for my English.
We wrote an USB driver for an embedded application on Windows 2000. It works fine, but now this OS in no more available. I read this:
It seems that on Vista-64 bits systems is not possible to load drivers that are not signed. We sell no more than 100 systems a year. I guess if this certification is too expensive for us.
Is it correct? Any link or suggestion?
Thanks in advance, Giacomo
This issue is not going to go away, it is going to get worse. Microsoft's end goal is to close the PC software and hardware architecture and require all software on Windows to be licensed through them, similar to XBox.
While there /are/ solutions to load unsigned drivers on 64-bit Vista, they will likely break with every new service pack. I would strongly consider moving your project to a different operating system.
Unless your driver absolutely needs to be a kernel-mode driver, why not rewrite it as a user-mode driver? UMDF drivers work on XP and Vista.
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Yes:
It seems a good idea. Thanks for the tips. I will work on it.
Giacomo
WHQL certification is 750 USD per attempt if I remember correctly. But you can self-sign the drivers. Then all you need is a Authenticode certificate which is 495 USD (or so) per year.
Read the following URLs.
Daniel Berglund ha scritto:
Ohhhh. Not too much. We can afford this, but good money is for goods, not for (e)paper ;-) Thanks for reply.
Giacomo
I can assure you will get a good, solid headache by figuring out how to actually sign the driver using the tools Microsoft provdes. Value for the money :-)
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