Re: How to stop WZC Service in XP-SP2

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One important point about stopping WZC service , what if another wireless
cart(chip) work in parallel and it don't have any other CU except WZC and
don't know how to treat security ( WZC is supplicant btw ). Just a few hints
Arkady

"Arkady Frenkel" <arkadyf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OrYVUnMQFHA.4020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wzcsapi.h in CE you can have only if you have platform builder and not eVC
> (eVT ) and that the same for XP up to SP2 , where the struct was changed ,
> look at
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.networks/browse_thread/thread/8ca9722da4870f0a/a925a934bc215987?q=arkadyf+INTF_ENTRY&rnum=2#a925a934bc215987
> Arkady
>
> "John K Gummadi" <john@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eD3M12DQFHA.3928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'm working on a WiFi tool that scans, connects to accesspoints, etc., So
>> far on XP SP1, I'm able to stop WZC before my app (by simply executing
>> "net
>> stop wzcsvc"). It stops successfully and I'm able to get handle to the
>> WLAN
>> adapter and I could send different commands to set WEP key, connect,
>> etc.,
>>
>> OK, now when I do the same in SP2 machine, though the WZC service appears
>> have stopped, I can't get IOCTL_NDISUIO_OPEN_DEVICE to work with
>> DeviceIOControl. I get some error that says something like it is in use
>> already. And I read in newgroups that from SP2, microsoft stopped
>> allowing
>> people from stopping the service. And also came to know that it is
>> possible
>> to stop it using WZCQueryInterface and WZCSetInterface. Though I have the
>> prototypes of these two functions, I'm unable to get the definition of
>> INTF_ENTRY. I searched google for "wzcsapi.h" (where i hope to find the
>> definition of INTF_ENTRY) without any luck. I don;t have WinCE installed
>> on
>> my machine. Can someone send me "wzcsapi.h" please? If not, atleast
>> definition of INTF_ENTRY.
>>
>> Any suggestions, pointers, source-code samples will be of great help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John.
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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