Board not detected in Win 7
42 views
Skip to first unread message
Casten
Jan 29, 2012, 2:39:03 PM1/29/12
to toasted circuits lightuino
Hello,
I'm having an issue with board detection using USB.
The board looks like it is up and running when I plug it into my
Windows 7 laptop, but it seems like it is not detecting the board. I
get no popup requesting a driver. The serial port doesn't come up. I
tried a manual install of the driver and it showed up, but has an
error message in the device manager that says: This device cannot
start. (Code 10)
I have an Arduino Mega ADK (2650) which has no problems. I tried
uninstalling the Mega ADK to see if there was a driver conflict, but
it still didn't detect the lightuino.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
-Casten
I'm having an issue with board detection using USB.
The board looks like it is up and running when I plug it into my
Windows 7 laptop, but it seems like it is not detecting the board. I
get no popup requesting a driver. The serial port doesn't come up. I
tried a manual install of the driver and it showed up, but has an
error message in the device manager that says: This device cannot
start. (Code 10)
I have an Arduino Mega ADK (2650) which has no problems. I tried
uninstalling the Mega ADK to see if there was a driver conflict, but
it still didn't detect the lightuino.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
-Casten
Andrew Stone
Jan 30, 2012, 10:18:44 AM1/30/12
to toasted-circu...@googlegroups.com
Hi Casten,
Sorry for the delay in responding, I could not get to my email this weekend. When you first plug the board in, you should see the blue LED flash twice quickly. If that happens the USB is working on the board. If the board thinks that it has established a USB connection, the blue LED will then turn on solid (but flash whenever there is data on the line). So I'm guessing you are not seeing it go on solid. If you get a chance to get on a Mac or Linux box, you could try to plug the board in since those operating systems will automatically detect any standard usb serial device -- so it should go solid blue there without any drivers installed. This will verify the board. Of course, I verify it before sending them out (and load the default sketch on) so it was certainly working just a few days ago!
I have a windows 7 laptop myself and am not having any issues. However, I do remember that it was a little tricky to install the "driver" since Windows 7 tries to hide the ability to manually install a driver from a file. And I do think that one other person had some driver install issues which I think resolved themselves by removing the driver, restarting windows, installing the driver, and THEN plugging in the Lightuino. But my machine was not so picky so it may not be that...
Since the Lightuino uses the standard windows USB serial driver, there really isn't any issue likely with the driver unless your Windows 7 installation is somehow messed up...
Cheers!
Andrew
Sorry for the delay in responding, I could not get to my email this weekend. When you first plug the board in, you should see the blue LED flash twice quickly. If that happens the USB is working on the board. If the board thinks that it has established a USB connection, the blue LED will then turn on solid (but flash whenever there is data on the line). So I'm guessing you are not seeing it go on solid. If you get a chance to get on a Mac or Linux box, you could try to plug the board in since those operating systems will automatically detect any standard usb serial device -- so it should go solid blue there without any drivers installed. This will verify the board. Of course, I verify it before sending them out (and load the default sketch on) so it was certainly working just a few days ago!
I have a windows 7 laptop myself and am not having any issues. However, I do remember that it was a little tricky to install the "driver" since Windows 7 tries to hide the ability to manually install a driver from a file. And I do think that one other person had some driver install issues which I think resolved themselves by removing the driver, restarting windows, installing the driver, and THEN plugging in the Lightuino. But my machine was not so picky so it may not be that...
Since the Lightuino uses the standard windows USB serial driver, there really isn't any issue likely with the driver unless your Windows 7 installation is somehow messed up...
Cheers!
Andrew
Casten Riepling
Jan 30, 2012, 1:24:56 PM1/30/12
to toasted-circu...@googlegroups.com
No problem on the delay, thanks for the reply.
When I try to click on the file and install it, it says "The INF file you selected does not support this method of installation.". If I try to install the .inf manually, but before I even plug in the device, it gives an error message at the end that says:
"This device cannot start. (Code 10)" Upon plugging in the device, it does not work. I also rebooted, but that didn't help either.
I'll dig out my linux laptop and try that this evening, but I'd prefer to use my windows setup and not have to have a separate laptop for lightuino dev.
-Casten
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages