Install a driver

[Tagor]

Is there a way to install a driver in windows with autoit?

For example using the .inf files.

[Tagor]

I have found a script to install a modem, but is there also a way to install a network card?

[Westi]

Use

rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 your_inf_name.INF

Upper and lower case is important, i think.

Edited May 6, 2005 by Larry

[Tagor]

As far as I know if you use the above code, the user will still need to confirm the installation of the hardware (the 'new hardware found popup' in windows).

[Westi]

As far as I know if you use the above code, the user will still need to confirm the installation of the hardware (the 'new hardware found popup' in windows).

This depends on the corresponding .inf file.

[Tagor]

Is there a way to suppres that in the inf file?

[Tagor]

Kick .

[Tagor]

Really nobody who knows this?

[DaveF]

4 days have gone by, what have you tried yourself?

If you've got an .INF file based driver install you can use IExpress.exe (included in Win2k and WinXP, downloadable from MS otherwise) to pack all the files into a self-extracting EXE that runs the INF at extract time. If the EXE will be run in a limited user environment it won't be able to write to or change HKLM registry keys, so you'd need to wrap it in an AutoIt3 script that would run it as a privileged user, a-la:

FileInstall("iexpress-wrapped-inf.exe", @TempDir & "\iexpress-wrapped-inf.exe")
RunAsSet("username", @ComputerName, "password")
RunWait(@TempDir & "\iexpress-wrapped-inf.exe")
RunAsSet()

If your driver install is distributed with a setup EXE there's a (good) chance that the setup can run as an unattended install with a command line switch, try running the setup from a DOS box with a command line switch of /? for a help dialog.

[Flashz]

Try using DevCon from Microsoft. It uses the command line for installing drivers.

It's quite easy to use after going through the help file

[Tagor]

Thanks guys this helped me a lot