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mbed Serial Port Driver Install
for Windows 7

by Matthew Ford 7th Jan 2022 (originally posted 14th December 2018)
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How to install an mbed Serial Port Driver
on Windows 7 for an unrecognized mbed device

Introduction

Plug in the BluePill and load the mbed Serial Port driver.
The mbed serial port works by default on Mac, Linux.
Also on Windows10 for CMSIS-DAP >0240, but this is an older CMSIS-DAP version and has not been tested on Window10. However Windows7/8 needs a driver.

However the BluePill with the CMSIS-DAP software is not recognized as an mbed device so the standard Windows 7 install program, mbedWinSerial_16466.exe, fails.

Instructions for installing the mbed Serial Port driver on Windows 7 (and 8?)

Download mbedDrivers.zip and unzip its drivers directory to a convenient location (e.g. Desktop). These drivers are a zip of the those installed by mbedWinSerial_16466.exe from https://os.mbed.com/docs/mbed-os/v6.15/program-setup/windows-serial-driver.html while a MicroBit was plugged in.

Plug in the BluePill which has had the CMSIS-DAP code installed on it (via ST-Link V2)

You will see.

If you Click here for status you see

After a while you see

If you Click here for details you see

In any case wait for either
Device driver software was not successfully installed
OR
No driver found

Open Device Manager from the start menu (Search for device)

Right click on the CMSID-DAP CDC device and choose Update Driver Software

Chose Browse my computer for driver software

Important: Choose Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer

Choose hardware type Ports (COM & LPT) and click Next

Click Next

Choose Have Disk and Browse to where you have unzipped the drivers dir

Choose one of the .inf files and click Open

Click OK to use this directory

Click Next

Click Yes

Click Install and when the install is finished you will see.

Click Close The Device Manager now shows an mbed Serial Port, which you can select in the Arduino IDI



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