USB Driver Question

Pridbor

New to the Parallax but not to both programming and HW design, albeit a little while ago.

The topic lies in my attempt to load the Simple IDE

I'm instructed to load an USB driver for the Board of Education I just purchased. In the
learn.parallax.com I'm told that sys. req. for windows are: XP/ 7/ 8 and that I shall go to the page
with USB drivers.

So far so good, but once there I only see one driver mentioned: Version 2.08.24,
and immediately after it's stated that it only supports Windows 2000/ xp/ Vista/ and 07?

As I run win 8.1 what am I supposed to do?

I did go to the FTDI web site, where I found the VCP and D2XX drivers, but didn't want to
venture into something which might mess up my other uses of the USB on my laptop.

Sorry if this has previously been addressed but being new I didn't see an obvious place to look

Thanks in advance for any help

Preben

Al_Green

I have a similar issue. I have loaded the driver version 2.08.24 and whilst the computer detects the com port with the USB conversion, it cannot find the propeller chip in the S2. I would appreciate hearing how to fix this also, and if I find a fix, I will reply with it to this group.

Pridbor

In the meantime I got the Simple IDE up and running Hello World on my stationary XP based PC.

It would be nice though if the above question could be resolved as I then can work in both my
work areas

Thanks

Andy Lindsay (Parallax)

@Pridbor,

Sorry for the delayed reply. The existing 2.08.24 driver from www.parallax.com/usbdrivers should work correctly on Windows 8.1. We will update the web page. Also, the only drawback of getting a newer version of the driver from the FTDI site would be that it does not support the PropScope. All the rest of the Parallax boards should be compatible.

@Al_Green

Were you using an older computer and then switched to one with Windows 8.1?

kuroneko

Andy Lindsay (Parallax) wrote: »

The existing 2.08.24 driver from www.parallax.com/usbdrivers should work correctly on Windows 8.1.

FWIW, I never had any issues with it (Vista/8/8.1).

Pridbor

No problem just a winter project :-)

I started loading all the Parallax SW on my win 8.1 Laptop when I saw the comment,
and I do take direction :-) but what I feared was that it would render the USB
connections for all my other uses, mem stick, phone etc, worthless as I imagined that
there would be but one driver for the USB ports.

I then proceeded to my stationary older PC, which I have chosen not to upgrade to a more
recent version of WIN but stay with XP which has served me fine.

I got everything up running on the XP based, but for a detail with the C IDE where I have an issue
with the inclusion of the simple library: it stated that it can't find the LIB for the CMM mem model.
Now I'm not quite there where I know too much about the various mem models so I'm a little at loss
to know if this is correct behavior or if I need to set a mem model somewhere first.

Anyhow I will proceed to load the PCI driver as described and check it out.

Many thanks

Preben

Pridbor

Update, I loaded the driver as indicated and it all works! great!

Andy is there an example for he VGA display?

Thanks all

Preben

Andy Lindsay (Parallax)

There's currently an example here:

...Documents\SimpleIDE\Learn\Examples\Devices\Display\Hello VGA.side

There's an enhanced text version coming soon. Send me a PM if you want to test drive it.

Andy