Installing USB Drivers

[johngb]

I am having a problem installing the USB driver for Firewing.
I'm on Windows 10 64 bit.

When I plug Firewing board in it appears in the Device Manager as a USB Serial device COM3.

If I open the device properties, change settings, browse to the Firewing USB driver and install, Windows tells me 'The Best Driver for your device is already installed and won't let me overwrite it.

When I try and connect to it the IDE says it cannot find the board.

Any help would be appreciated.

[David John Barker]

I briefly had windows 10 installed on my machine but quickly reverted back to windows 7. During this time I was unable to get the drivers to correctly work with windows 10.

[David John Barker]

I should add that the USB driver software is open source and you can reflash the Firewing USB chip using a melabs programmer or similar. If anyone uses windows 10 and feels up to the challenge!

[bitfogav]

Hi guys.. This is how I get the drivers to work on my Windows 10

First I had to disable "driver digital signature" on my Windows 10 device, David has already done a tutorial on this for Windows 8 in the following link
http://www.firewing.info/pmwiki.php?n=Firewing.DriverWin8 The procedure is similar to Windows 10.

Once Windows 10 has restarted you now need to go into "Device Manager" and Update Driver Software on the selected device which Windows installed for the firewing board -
which may look like this "USB Serial device COM3".

You then need to select:
1. "Browse my computer for driver software"
2. "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
3. "Have Disk"
Browse for firewing driver "firewingCDC.inf" and then Click OK
You should then be taken back to the previous pop up window which said "Have Disk".
4. Now Click "Next"

That should install the firewing driver...
If a pop up window appears complaining about the driver not being digital signed?
just choose the option to install the driver anyway..

[johngb]

Were you running Windows 10 32 or 64 bit?
I tried this approach on the 64 bit version and it still wouldn't allow me to change the driver.

[bitfogav]

That's strange, I'm running Windows 10 64bit.

[johngb]

OK, must be me, I will try again

[johngb]

That worked this time, before I didn't go through the have disk process, I just choose update driver and browsed to the driver.
I now can make contact with the Firewing board. Firmware Version Rev 1 Device Rev 1.
Thanks very much.

[bitfogav]

Yes its important to follow the "Have Disk" process, I tried to update the driver through the browse process and also found this didn't work for me either,
I'm finding nothing is easy with Windows 10.

I'm glad this helped fix you're issue.

[David John Barker]

Thanks for the input on this thread, very useful...