Re: Win 7 Device Manager displays Unknown Device

Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libusb.devel.windows
Message-ID <CAGjSPUDLYugNzF+G+8Z9n4gadnP9iG_rbKPOmLoBqs7YrHWAZw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Kevin Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Our device uses libusb-win32 to connect to a PC, but we’ve
> recently encountered an odd obstacle.
>
> On two Windows 7 Pro SP1 computers (with an Intel 64 Family 6,
> Model 58, Stepping 9 chipset), the Device Manager simply displays
> unknown device and we cannot communicate with the device.
> We have installed the drivers correctly, but there was no change.
> We also attempted to use the Add Hardware Wizard to manually
> point to the driver package, which created an item under libusb-win32
> with the correct device, but it did not seem to be linked to the actual
> hardware. The “unknown device” was still there, and our software
> still failed to communicate with the hardware.
>
> Is there something obvious I’m missing? We’ve successfully
> had the system work with a similar Win7 AMD64 computer.

If Windows recognize the device as "unknown device", then
there is nothing libusb-win32 can do. This is known as an
enumeration problem, most like a device firmware (or
hardware stability) problem which got exposed by the new
computer.

You can try to use a hardware USB analyzer. Or you can
try Windows ETW function here.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj151572(v=vs.85).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2009/10/31/how-does-usb-stack-enumerate-a-device.aspx


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Xiaofan

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