RE: Card Services & Socket Services Doubt.

[SWoloszyn@chrysalis-its.com]

 

Hello,

 

 

1) Windows 2000/XP ships with "pcmcia.sys", which is the driver for various cardreaders/chipsets.

 

2) Driver writers are expected to write a new PnP-compliant driver for the PC Card; i.e., this new driver must respond to PnP events in exactly the way prescribed in the DDK.

 

3) Upon inserting PC Card, pcmcia.sys will parse the CIS and load the associated driver.  On first insertion, the PnP manager will seek out the INF file.  See the DDK for writing a WHQL quality INF file.

 

 

Now, all this assumes you will want to use the builtin PnP manager services.  I think there is enough documentation and samples in the DDK to start.  Possibly, a 3rd-party provides an API closer to the PC Card standard, but, I haven't looked into it.

 

Also, I recall Window 95/98 shipped with Card Services and API.  However, I doubt this is supported in later OSs.

 

 

Regards,

 

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Gopal Gupta [mailto:gopalgu@yahoo.co.in]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:30 AM
To: pci-sig@znyx.com
Subject: Card Services & Socket Services Doubt.

Hi,

 

Can anyone please answere these questions ?

 

1)    How do i check whether Card service and Socket services are installed in Windows XP / 2000 ?

2)    Does windows DDK defines Card service APIs ?

3)    If i am writing a device driver for a PC card, do i have to write my own CIS parser ? or will the socket service takes care of CIS decoding ?

 

Thanking in advance

 

Gopal

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