USB Driver development help

[lois]

Hi,

I am currently working on my final project for school, which basically involves writing a USB flash device driver for a PocketPC that runs W.Mobile or W.PocketPC. Is this possible (still considering if I should choose this title for a project). New to device driver development. Any pointers (sites, books, development tools involved, pda model that can do) are greatly appreciated...so far, on the google, a bunch of people asking similar question but none had any response...:cry:

If you are able to coach me on this project, I might even consider this to be a paid job, but of course as a student, I don't have much to offer.


Thanks,
lois

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Can't give you any pointers on development, but it is possible:

http://www.mypdacafe.com/articles.php?id=219

There are such drivers available publicly, you might want to look at this:

http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/support/driver/cfu1.html

I've use this myself (the HID driver at least) and it works well with keyboard and mouse. I didn't need the MSC driver as I already had one onboard. Just so you're aware, only PDAs with USB host hardware will be able to utilise these drivers, and there aren't that many around:

http://forum.mypdacafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=4177&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=host&start=15

I suppose it might be possible to run the driver on an emulator, but I wouldn't have a clue as to how. BTW, you might want to order this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/resourcekit/default.aspx

It's free, except for shipping charges, and will give you the complete IDE for Windows Mobile development.

Just a thought: What would really be cool is if you wrote a device driver that could read a CD/DVD drive because nobody has done that before. Good luck!