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8 years, 4 months ago.
COM port disappeared for mbed on new HP Spectre 360 computer
/media/uploads/captaintim/com_port_issue_with_hp_spectre_360.doc Just bought a new HP Spectre 360 with fast 256GB SSD storage and discovered my mbed has been demoted to a portable device (no more COM port for you, see screen shot). Some other controllers (nRF51 DK, BC118) I use worked when I download FTDI drivers but mbed remains unaffected. Anyone else have this problem? One workaround suggested connecting using a USB>UART cable but no RS232 jacks are available on this machine.
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8 years, 4 months ago.
The Lpc1768 module will show up automatically as memory stick, but you have to install a device driver for the serial port. Check the platform page for the link. The USB to Uart cable can connect between a USB port on the PC and a serial port (3v3) on the lpc1768 side using one of its serial ports. This could be an FTDI like device that also needs a driver on the PC side.
Thanks for your suggestion to install a serial port driver. I think I was fooled by it appearing as a serial port in Connected Devices. Here's where the driver and explanation is located: https://developer.mbed.org/handbook/Windows-serial-configuration I clicked on the download and saved "mbedWinSerial_16466.exe" ran installed the driver I needed. TeraTerm when started displayed text and numbers when connected to the Hewlett Packard Spectre 360 computer which it wasn't doing previously. Nice job and thanks for the help.
posted by 27 Jul 2016