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10 years, 3 months ago. This question has been closed. Reason: Confusing.
mbed serial driver cannot install
I have tried installing the serial driver mbedWinSerial_16466 on three different computers, and I have tried with two different cables. I can nicely place new code onto my mbed, but debugging with 2 LEDs is very lousy.
A serial connection is a must, and the serial driver is obviously really bad. Has anyone found an alternative driver or are mbed soon coming up with a better solution.
EDIT: Its an ARCH PRO board from Seeed Studio based on LPC11U24, and I have tried installing the serial driver on both Win7/32bit and two Win8/64bit machines.
3 Answers
10 years, 3 months ago.
What specifically is not working? Have you followed all of the instructions at https://mbed.org/handbook/Windows-serial-configuration?
I'm sure I'm not alone, but I have 3 PC's that are all communicating properly with a terminal application (Terminal by Bray) through the serial connection to my LPC1768's.
10 years, 3 months ago.
Thanks for answering :-)
Connecting the Arch Pro GPRs to the computer enables a start of the code running on the board, and I assume it is working as intented, but I need a serial connection that can receive the printf statements I have placed in the code. There is no serial connection working and trying to install according to all documentation ends up in a loop with a driver from 2009 that cannot install because "No mbed controllers where found". I think we need an update...
Arch GPRS doesn't come with an mbed interface. So mbedWinSerial_16466.exe will not work with it. As Erik said, you can https://mbed.org/handbook/USBSerial to output debug messages.
posted by 17 Jan 2014
10 years, 3 months ago.
Same here, I got a whole bunch of mbeds, that I primarily use on my laptop, but I also have used them on several other PCs, never a problem with the serial connection (my windows even has saved that driver somewhere now, at least it automatically installs it for new mbeds).
Also giving more information would be useful, then your problem can be solved, now it is just a rant that I don't think many others will recognise: I haven't seen many issues with serial connections, and most of them were quite quickly solved, so start by mentioning which OS, which code do you run on your mbed, and describe how it doesn't work.
The Arch pro is based on the LPC1768, the Arch is based on the LPC11u24. According to your page you have the Arch. The Arch has no serial <> USB converter on board, so it is kinda expected the mbed isn't found and not that the driver is bad.
Now you can still use serial via USB, however it needs to run on the host microcontroller. Which has that capability (of course it does generate some overhead), however look at: https://mbed.org/handbook/USBSerial. That should work. I would start with a Win7 machine, because an issue I am aware of is that Win8 is irritating that the driver isn't signed. You can google on how to install the driver anyway, but that is indeed not ideal.
posted by Erik - 16 Jan 2014Thank you so much, my bad. I will try to wire something up to have the debugging interface.
posted by Niels Buch 17 Jan 2014