I have been unable to install the SAMD21 Mini Breakout drivers lately to get it to interface with the Arduino IDE (according to these instructions in the first image)…
I didn’t get any indication from my corporate-approved laptop or even my personal laptop that Windows 10 was searching for the drivers. Even when I tried manually installing the drivers, despite downloading and extracting the latest release of the Arduino board/driver files from Github, whenever I access Device Manager, it doesn’t display the “Other Devices” tab so that I can get the driver installed onto the computer.
Any chance I can receive more present and specific instructions?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Hi determinator94,
Sorry to hear you are struggling to install drivers for the SAMD21 Mini Breakout. Your login on the laptop provided by your employer may have issues installing drivers if your user privileges are not set to Admin. As for your personal laptop, you should not need to manually install drivers on Windows 10 so something else may be going on here. First, open your Device Manager and then plug in the board via USB. Do you see anything show up in the various drop-down menus? Common places for the device to appear would be in the “Ports (COM & LPT)” menu or “Universal Serial Bus Controllers”.
If you do not see anything, try manually forcing the board into bootloader mode by quickly double-tapping the RESET button and again, watch for activity on your Ports and USB Controllers menus. Do you see anything with the board in bootloader mode? If you do not see anything there, are you by chance using a USB cable you pulled from a phone charger or similar charging device? If possible, try another micro-USB cable and re-test and see if that helps as you may be using a Power Only USB cable for charging micro-USB devices.
Yeah I see the USB connection under “Ports (COM & LPT).” However I can’t update driver; only option I can select is “Driver Details.”
It seems like whichever USB-to-uUSB cable I use and switch over to, I still can’t update my SAMD21 driver status.
Okay I’m trying this now on my ASUS. I can update the drivers, but I don’t see “Unknown Device.” It says “USB Serial Device.”
Secondly, every time I try to update the drives to install the sparkfun.cat and sparkfun.inf files into the SAMD21 Mini Breakout, it says the best drivers are already installed.
If you’re on Windows 10 and you see the board show up as a USB Serial Device, you do not need to install the drivers. Try uploading to it in Arduino (after installing the Arduino SAMD and SparkFun SAMD Board Definitions) on the port it is showing up on. It should work. If it does not, please take screenshots of your device manager and any errors Arduino throws at you and attach them to your reply.
Alright then. Turns out I didn’t have to do much then with the drivers.
In that case, the other burning question regarding the SAMD21 Mini Breakout is once I access https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-sof … dded/cmsis what exactly am I downloading? Where do I click for the low-level ARM Cortex Libraries?
Thanks for the help TS-Mark.
