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9 years, 9 months ago.
mbed Serial Driver and Windows 8.1
Hi,
I've been using mbed for a number of projects including using serial comms on a Windows 7 x64 with no issues (more or less). However I've started doing a few home projects, but I have a laptop i5 with Windows 8.1 x64, however no matter what I do, I can seem to install the mbed Serial Driver. Can anybody that can help?
I can see the microcontroller in the Device Manager under "Other", "CDC Device". I know I've got good hardware because I can move all of it across to a Windows 7 x64 machine at work, and I'm good... but not at home...
I've tried to disable Windows 8.1 unsigned driver enforcement by following the following guide http://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how-to-disable-driver-signature-verification-on-64-bit-windows-8.1-so-that-you-can-install-unsigned-drivers/
I no longer get unsigned driver warning, but still no luck and all I get is the following error message which is killing me!
"mbed x64 The driver could not be installed. No mbed Microcontroller could be found"
I've tried using Explorer and Firefox, but I get no difference running mbedWinSerial_16466.exe
Cheers!
2 Answers
9 years, 9 months ago.
I think you are trying to use the serial drivers from the interface IC, while you seem to have an LPC11u35, which afaik doesn't have an interface IC, and instead relies on the burned in bootloader. Then you require the usage of USBSerial instead of regular Serial, with corresponding drivers: https://mbed.org/handbook/USBSerial. For these you do indeed need to disable unsigned driver warnings.
