NO PLUGIN DRIVER!

[Fredric QJ Blåholtz]

I haven't used my Zoomfloppy for several weeks, it has been standing ready to use USB-cable plugged in and 1541-II shut off.

Running Windows XP 32 bit, installation was successful a few weeks ago, managed to install parallel-cable and put the ZF in a box as well to protect it. Apparently I had an installation of libusb0 since before, some Hong Kong version that had a bunch of strange characters in the device name. USBASP for a USB Atmel AVR programmer. It worked anyway I didn't know why it looked so strange at the time of install.

When starting everything today, I got nothing from CBMXfer, tried the runtest.bat from the installation package and only got "NO PLUGIN DRIVER!" and then in Swedish something about the requested module was not found...

Tried re-installing, clearing everything regarding opencbm, libusb0 and xum1541/Zoomfloppy from the register and re-install, other USB-ports, other USB-cable - no difference, also tried to updated the firmware with the same version that's already present - worked fine, tried system recovery to a week earlier - didn't help but messed up the license to the virus program that I had to reinstall. Decided to Install it on my laptop just to check that the hardware is OK - worked on the first try.

Kind of sucks, can't seem to sort it out, why did it stop working, why can't I install it again?

I even tried downloading and installing the latest libusb 1.2.6.0, no difference. Don't know what module is requested by "cbmctrl detect" and where it is supposed to be and why it's not there. Perhaps it has something to do with the USB itself - no other USB devices seem to have any problems.

So what can I try, been at this all day, suggestions are welcome.

[Nate Lawson]

No, you can't use other libusb drivers with the ZoomFloppy. You can right-click on the ZF device under "USB" in the Device Manager and say "reinstall". Then use the .inf file provided with the ZF.

You might also look at c:\windows\system32\opencbm.conf. Maybe you overwrote it and the xum1541 device can't be found in its config.

-Nate

[Fredric QJ Blåholtz]

Don't have an opencbm.conf file in the system32 directory, copied the default one there... then what? How is it supposed to be installed there, doesn't happen in the install.bat.

I reverted to the original libusb0-driver when the 1.2.6.0 didn't work.


So it seems the plugin is the opencbm-xum1541.dll and it's not installed correctly...

[Fredric QJ Blåholtz]

I also noticed when doing the install or running instcbm directly that the first time it's run it only copies opencbm.dll and opencbmvdd.dll, have to run it a second time to get it to copy opencbm-xum1541.dll.

[Nate Lawson]

Make sure you have C:\WINDOWS\system32\opencbm-xum1541.dll from the install zip file in the right location.

instcbm.exe is what installs opencbm.conf. You can run it from the cmd prompt to check the installation.

Since you got it to work on your laptop, try to track down the differences between the two systems.

My working Windows install:

Directory of c:\windows\system32

09/24/2011 11:22 AM 20,992 opencbm-xum1541.dll
09/10/2011 01:38 PM 91 opencbm.conf
09/24/2011 11:22 AM 22,528 opencbm.dll

Contents of c:\windows\system32\opencbm.conf:

[plugins]
default=xum1541

[xum1541]
location=c:/windows/system32/opencbm-xum1541.dll

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[Fredric QJ Blåholtz]

Yes, if I run instcbm -r xum1541 from cmd the files are removed from the c:\windows\system32 folder and then I run instcbm xum1541, only two files appear in the system32 folder,

C:\ZoomFloppy-2.0\exe>instcbm xum1541
Working directory = 'C:\ZoomFloppy-2.0\exe\',
system  directory = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\',
driver  directory = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\'.
Copying '.\opencbm.dll' to 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opencbm.dll'
Copying '.\opencbmvdd.dll' to 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opencbmvdd.dll'

I have to run the command again for the opencbm-xum1541.dll file to be installed (copied to the directory).

C:\ZoomFloppy-2.0\exe>instcbm xum1541
Working directory = 'C:\ZoomFloppy-2.0\exe\',
system  directory = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\',
driver  directory = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\'.
Copying '.\opencbm.dll' to 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opencbm.dll'
Copying '.\opencbmvdd.dll' to 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opencbmvdd.dll'

No opencbm.conf is added, only these three files.
Dates of all three files are 2011-09-25 22:36
I downloaded this file - same with the laptop: http://root.org/~nate/c64/opencbm-ZoomFloppy-2.0-i386.zip
Very odd, have tried shutting off the virus scanner, no difference in how the installer or cbminst works.

opencbm.dll 22528 bytes
opencbmvdd.dll 12288 bytes
opencbm-xum1541.dll 20992

Is there anything I can erase or change in the registry?

[Nate Lawson]

I don't know why your instcbm.exe doesn't work as expected, but does manually copying the files I mentioned in my email help?

[Fredric QJ Blåholtz]

No, I have all the files there and it doesn't work for some reason.

Has there been changes to the installation the last one or two months?

[Nate Lawson]

No changes for over a year to the 2.0-i386.zip or anything else hosted on root.org. Afraid someone else will have to help you as I don't know what is different about your computer.

On Mar 4, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Fredric QJ Blåholtz wrote:

> No, I have all the files there and it doesn't work for some reason.
>
> Has there been changes to the installation the last one or two months?
>

[Fredric QJ Blåholtz]

I tried the instcbm command on the laptop and it works as expected with adding all four files including the .conf-file. It doesn't stop after the first two dll-files and I don't have to run it more than once - same installation files.

So there's obviously something wrong with my computer - or perhaps a recent Windows-update has messed things up. I might try and back the computer up further back and see if it helps.

I have installed all updates on the laptop though and that one has no problems, running XP Pro.

I'll run some diagnostic tests and see if I can solve it, I think other things should be messing up as well... not just this.

[Fredric QJ Blåholtz]

Seems there was something really odd with my computer, I ended up installing a new harddrive and a total reinstall, Zoomfloppy i hokked back up and worked on the first try.

[Nate Lawson]

Glad it's working again for you.

On Mar 16, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Fredric QJ Blåholtz wrote:

> Seems there was something really odd with my computer, I ended up installing a new harddrive and a total reinstall, Zoomfloppy i hokked back up and worked on the first try.
>

[Bob Reid]

I realize this is an old post, but I am replying to it due to running into the same "NO PLUGIN DRIVER!" error. I was eventually able to fix this by manually running "cbminst xum1541" from the exe folder in the zoomfloppy installation files. I am not sure why, but running the install.bat did not seem to run it correctly. I did even right click the batch file and tell it to run as admin, but it did not fix the issue.
I did notice that when I ran the command as I listed above, I still received a windows UAC (User Access Control) to ask permission to run. I'm not sure why this was an issue all of a sudden, as I installed this before on both my desktop and laptop and had no issue. However I had reimaged both machines since I last had used my zoomfloppy, and both had the same issue.
Anyway, I hope this information will prove useful to anyone else that might have the same problem. (I am running Win7 64bit on both machines btw)