Windows 7 64bit driver issue

Hi All

Just a post for anyone that finds this issue and possibly for someone in the dev community to fix.

I was having problems getting the windows drivers for smoothieware to work on a Win7 Ultimate x64 build.
Turns out the 1.1 driver inf file has a missing line in the vista 64 section as follows:

usbser.sys,0x20

If you add this to the smoothiware.inf file the driver should install fine.

Cheers

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Hello, this may be what I am looking for, but I don’t have enough background knowledge to know where to enter " usbser.sys,0x20".

The vista 64 section in the smoothieware.inf I have looks as follows:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Vista-64bit Sections
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[DriverInstall.NTamd64]
include=mdmcpq.inf
CopyFiles=DriverCopyFiles.NTamd64
AddReg=DriverInstall.NTamd64.AddReg

[DriverCopyFiles.NTamd64]

[DriverInstall.NTamd64.AddReg]
HKR,DevLoader,*ntkern
HKR,NTMPDriver,usbser.sys
HKR,EnumPropPages32,“MsPorts.dll,SerialPortPropPageProvider”

[DriverInstall.NTamd64.Services]
AddService=usbser, 0x00000002, DriverService.NTamd64

[DriverService.NTamd64]
DisplayName=%SERVICE%
ServiceType=1
StartType=3
ErrorControl=1
ServiceBinary=%12%\usbser.sys
LoadGroupOrder=Base

[DFUDriverInstall.NTamd64]
[DFUDriverInstall.NTamd64.Services]
AddService=,2

It’s my undertsanding you shouldn’t need to open/worry about the driver file’s content, you should just follow the instructions at http://smoothieware.org/windows-drivers , if you are looking at the inside of the file, you are not following instructions and should move back to following the documentation.