Installing an USB driver

[D_1]

Hei,

My goal is to establish USB bulk communication between an USBdevice and Labview. I have been following this procedure: http://www.ni.com/tutorial/4478/en/ and used NI-VIsa Driver Wizard.

Everything went fine till I  have to create cat file. This I have to do  because my OS is 8 and in oder to get "allowance" to install the drivers I need to have it digitally signed. Appereantly it should be at location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x86

But I can't  find the in2cat exe nowwhere. I reinstalled the the windows kit where the inf2cat appereatly is couple of times. So,

How do I get to inf2cat?

Is there any other "cosy "way to establish USB communication?

Any recommendations or advices are also appreciate.

thanks for the help

[Dennis_Knutson]

What sort of USB device is it? It's almost always a mistake to try and use the wizard unless you have full information on the protocol used. Is it a design of yours?

[D_1]

It is just a simple microcontroller that ia already programed and the only way to acces it, is through usb. Also everything is provided VID-PID, endpoints with pipes, command syntax... to establish the protocol. Other protocols I2C and SPI are not document. So, that's why I thought to use NI-VISA driver wizard 🙂

[Simon_T · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Does it work if you try to disable the "Safe Drivers" setting in 8?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-can-i-install-hardware-with-unsigned-drivers-in-windows-8/

[D_1]

Simon, thanks a ton. You are a life saver 🙂