[Arduino Driver Mac Os X
Iberio Ralda
The installation did not automatically start. I followed the steps; however, cannot find the exact drivers folder after clicking browse in Device Manager. It says to navigate to drivers in lieu of default FTDI USB Drivers. I have checked where I installed Arduino: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Programs\Arduino IDE and C:\Users\USERNAME\OneDrive\Documents\Arduino and Program Files (x86) as is shown here: Install Arduino driver on Windows 10 - YouTube. Also tried going to the search bar and typing Folders: drivers to no avail. These paths don't contain drivers.
I found a drivers folder :C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\hardware\avr\1.8.6\drivers which contains the FTDI USB Drivers folders. Is this the correct place to install? It doesn't quite match what the booklet states.
Hi @pomme_frites22. Unlike Arduino IDE 1.x, the Arduino IDE 2.x installation does not include drivers. I see the outdated information in my Arduino Starter Kit book (but on the other hand I got it before Arduino IDE 2.x existed so that is to be expected).
I have bought the keyestudio Robot CAR V2.0 Kit
Following the first simple project (led blinking), I had to install Arduino IDE + drivers using the same approach as you mentionned here above to pommes_frites22.
However when indicating the driver folder locaiton, I could not install it. I checked Arduino IDE and I could not see that a port was open in the Tools tab. I mean the port tab is "grayed" as if it is unable. How could I solve this ? Thanks a lot for your help.
Moreover when clicking on Tool tab on Arduino IDE, I see that the Port option is greyed i.e I cannot select any Port option or click on the port arrow/button. Unfortunately it is difficult to take a printscreen if this explantion
The CP210x USB to UART Bridge Virtual COM Port (VCP) drivers are required for device operation as a Virtual COM Port to facilitate host communication with CP210x products. These devices can also interface to a host using the direct access driver.
Thank you for your help. Yes, I also think in the direction of the drivers. I have followed an instruction to reset the board connecting 2 pins shortly, and using the program FLIP for windows. But it did not solve the problem. I don't seem to be able to find the correct drivers. If I had them, I maybe could refer to them from the device manager, to update the driver, referring to the map I save them in.
I was just on the phone with the seller of the arduino kit, he helped me perform the reset, installing flip, but still no succes.
Maybe there is a problem with windows 11? The arduino IDE is for windows 10 and up. I haven't found a working solution yet, so ideas are very welcome.
As sterretje explained, Arduino IDE automatically installs the Windows drivers. So it should not be necessary to install them manually unless you rejected the installation at the Windows "User Access Control" security prompt that requests permission to do so.
But attempting the manual driver installation does no harm and maybe will somehow fix the problem, so if you want to give it a try I'll tell you the new location of the drivers. The are in the folder at the following path:
Thank you for your help.
I found the map. In the device manager I see: unknown usb device (request for device description failed) with an icon in front of it with a yellow warning triangle with an "!"
From there I went to update driver, and chose the directory. Also the subdirectory FTDI USB drivers. I repeated a couple of times, but still the yellow "!" remains and the arduino is not recognized.
I also turned off norton 360 temporarily, removed and reinstalled arduino ide, chose the drivers also manually to install through the device manager, but still the unknown usb device. The arduino is still not recognized, and in the ide the port is still light grey, no ports are shown.
I contacted the seller of the arduino board again, and am waiting for him to get back to me. Meanwhile any tips are still very welcome. I hope to get it connected, recognized so we will be able to get the led blinking..
The led should already be blinking if you connect the board to a power source (e.g. your PC); it should be "pre-installed". If it doesn't blink, I would ship it back to the seller. Reason is that it might indicate an underlaying problem.
Thank you everyone for your help.
The seller sent me a new arduino, and like Sterretje wrote, the led was already blinking this time.
I had no trouble at all connecting the new arduino. The ide immediately recognized it. Tried it on two laptops. I ran 3 basic example programs. They worked fine.
The topic can be closed, and I can start coding my own programs. Thanks again.
I ended up here with the same problem because I read the instructions in the manual that came with the beginner kit said to install the driver manually and referenced a folder called Drivers that no longer exists. I hadn't started the IDE because in the past Windows could be finicky with such things, but once I started the IDE it updated the drivers all on it's own.
Okay, so I got a genuine Arduino UNO R3 here. Running windows 10. It is updated. I also have the 1.8.13 version of the Arduino IDE. All is working well, I then have an issue uploading a sketch to the board and go to the ports tab and see that it is greyed out. I look up a solution on these forums that is a few years old that says to uninstall, unplug, replug, then reinstall and that should fix it. I go to device manager to uninstall, unplug, replug, and the computer doesn't reinstall automatically as the post said it would, and I can't figure out how to reinstall the driver. Whereas before it would say "Arduino Uno" under either the "other devices" or "ports" section on device manager, I only ever get "unknown USB device" under the "universal serial bus controllers" section
When plugged into the computer it makes the connection noise. The error it gives is "USB Device not recognized". When I go to device manager the associated port says "unknown USB device". I right-click on it and select update driver. I go to "Browse my computer for drivers". I locate the driver folder at C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\drivers and select next. Windows says "the best drivers for your device are already installed"* and still lists the device as an unknown USB device. I go back and choose "let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer". I click on "have disk" and again navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\drivers and click next. I get the error "the folder you specified doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device. if the folder contains a driver make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64 based systems." I search the web and find that disabling the driver signature requirement sometimes helps, so I hold shift while the computer is restarting, get to the blue screen with the troubleshooting options, restart and press 7 to select "disable driver signature enforcement". Go through the same process as described above and still get the errors as described before.
I have been at this for 5 hours now, I am losing my mind. I don't know if this is relevant but I have two knockoff Arduino Uno boards that literally will work only every other day. So if I plug in board A and use it, it won't work the next day, but board B will and I have to use that one instead, then the next day B won't work and I have to use A again, and so on and so forth. Hence receiving the genuine Uno board for x-mas hoping to eliminate this issue, under the impression it was just an issue with the knock-offs. To be fair it was working for a few hours until I followed the advice to uninstall from the device manager.
Hello Gozeraye, I just wrote a huge post about this and it got deleted. This problem is not you. There is something wrong with this update. I regret installing 1.8.13. I lost my entire sketch book, I'm devastated. The IDE freezes Everytime it detects the smallest error in sketchs. It run odd all together, it has trouble loading libraries, the list of issue will take up probably 5 pages here, so I'm not going to list them all again. But I have not changed anything in my setup. No uninstalls, same Arduinos I've been using for over 2 years with no problems. Absolutely nothing has been changed except installing the new update. Something is wrong with the program. I hope we get a response from this, because I lost a year's worth of work.
al514: Please do not muddy the water here - you are reporting a completely different issue than the OP (and your problems are also unique to you or your system... you have confirmed that the Arduino folder within your documents folder no longer contains your sketches?).
Why am I having so many issues after updating then? And if we're supposed to do all this deactivating of system tools, why is that not in the instructions for installing? I'm trying not to over react but it's extremely frustrating. I apologise for that, believe me, get aggravated like this isn't part of my personality. what should I try? The IDE just freezes and beeps at me if I push anything
I disconnected what I had connected to it (a 4 row lcd with backack and a DS3231 clock module) and reinsierted the cable. The system recognized it as an arduino uno r3 and it shows in the device manager. Huzzah. I will remember this trick in the future. Do you know why that changes how the computer sees the board?
Huzzah aside, i am getting the error I got before which led me to delete the board from the device manager in the first place. I turned on verbose compile and upload messages and have the following error:
I think I will reinstall the previous version, I also read that the update had a new breakout window for working with the code? Where is that? Very confused here. I mean I love all this and the idea, but it takes a long time to learn how to use these boards. Everything was so good before.
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