Windows 10

[AndrewB]

I have just tried my firewing on a windows 10 laptop and it's not recognised as an usb device.

[David John Barker]

I think this has been discussed before. Microsoft have changed the way they handle USB CDC for windows 10. So far, I've not found a solution to the problem. For the time being, I don't run windows 10 for development.

[David John Barker]

Have you got a PicKit 3 programmer?

[AndrewB]

Yes I have one.

[David John Barker]

Can you try programming the attached firmware into the Firewing USB chip. Use the 6 pin header, just above the main PIC18, PIC24 or PIC32 device marked "USB ICSP". The square hole is pin 1. The *.zip file includes MPLABX and MPLAB project files, so you don't have to build anything - just program.

Let me know how you get on...

[Jerry Messina]

I'm curious to see if that works, so keep us posted.

Does it do anything other than set the CDC subclass to 2 so it'll (supposedly) load the win10 built-in driver?

Will win10 let you load unsigned drivers without going into some special test mode like win8 did? That was never a solution for me since I couldn't really tell our clients to do that. I signed some of the Swordfish drivers for win8, but my signing certificate has expired and needs to be renewed.

If that little trick works it's a lot easier than having to sign the drivers.

[AndrewB]

Will try that out but will have do it after I have completed this project.

Will let you know in a few days or next week.

Hope thats Ok?

[David John Barker]

No problem - please do let me know if the fix works for you...

[Coccoliso]

Hi,
I upgraded to W10 from a W8.1 where I had disabled the signed drivers and doing nothing Firewing is seen and it works.
It seems to me that where you set the bios (turning off pressing Windows button and restart PC http://acer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/38289/~/windows-10%3A-disable-signed-driver-enforcement) you can also disable signed drivers in W10.
If David has made the "clean driver" without disabling nothing is more than appreciated .
Instead to use the Swordfish toolsuite I had to disable Smartscreen (http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-windows-smartscreen-in-windows-10/ ) that otherwise told me that the compiler was not installed.

[Jerry Messina]

The last time I tried that it would reset whenever I rebooted the machine, and I had to go through disabling them again every time... not something I can expect a client to do.

Has that changed with 8.1 or 10?