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• Choose Browse My Computer to install the driver manually. Choose Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer. Choose Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port Version: 3.2.0.0 and click NEXT. The correct driver should install and the yellow notification should disappear from the Device Manager. Note the COM Port number.
• To install, open Device Manager Universal Serial Bus controllers right-click USB Root Hub (USB 3.0) Uninstall Device reboot PC. To re-install a specific device, navigate to the above but select Properties Driver Update Driver to install from your PC.
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Read this whole post, there's a lot initially but there's really just two or three small pieces. It'll be worth it because you'll be able to have a nice one click menu and drop directly into a serial port terminal on Windows in the Windows Terminal

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Often when you're doing embedded systems development you'll want to monitor or talk to the COM/Serial Port just like you SSH into remote system. Folks ask questions like 'How to connect to a serial port as simple as using SSH?'

On Linux you'll use things like 'screen /dev/ttyS0' for COM0. With Windows, however, the historical guidance has always been to use Putty. It'll work but it's somewhat old, quirky, and it doesn't integrate well with the Windows Terminal and a more modern workflow.

Say I have a small embedded microcontroller device that talks over a COM Port (usually via a USB->COM bridge) like an Arduino.

Let's assume this device talks to the COM port as if it were a terminal and it's outputting stuff I want to see. I'll use this great little CLI example app for Arduino from Mads Aasvik to simulate such a device.

Here's what it looks like under Arduino's Serial Monitor, for example. This is a Windows app doing serial communication with its own interface wrapping around it. I want to do this at a command line, and bonus points if it's in Windows Terminal.

Setup WSL1

If you have Windows 10 you can the Windows Subsystem for Linux quickly with this command at a Admin prompt:

Then go to the Windows Store and get any small Linux. Ubuntu or Kali will do for our purposes. Run it and set your user and password. (I tried Alpine but it still has issues with screen and /dev/null/utmp)

NOTE: If you are using WSL2 and have set it as default, run wsl --list -v and ensure that your new distro is using WSL1 as only WSL1 will let us talk to the COM Ports. You can change it to WSL1 with 'wsl --set-version DISTRONAME 1' from any command prompt.

To test this out now, run your new distro from any command line prompt like this. Add the 'screen' app with sudo apt update' and 'sudo app install screen'.

You can see here that my Arduino serial device is on COM4. On Linux that device is /dev/ttyS4

That means that I should be able to talk it from any WSL1 Linux Distro on Windows like 'screen /dev/ttyS4 9600' where 9600 is the speed/baud rate.

Get Minicom on your WSL1 distro

Screen is somewhat persnickety for Serial Port work so try Minicom. Minicom is a nice little text com program. Install with apt install minicom and run for the first time with 'sudo minicom -s' to set your default. Note I've change the default port from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS4 and the speed, in my case, to 9600. Elf bowling 7 serial number.

Then I hit enter and save settings as the dft (default) in minicom. You can also turn on Local Echo with 'Ctrl-A E' and toggle it if needed. Now I can talk to my Arudino with minicom.

Ensure dialout permissions to talk to the COM port

NOTE: If you get 'cannon open /dev/ttyS4: Permission denied, you may need to add your user to the dialout group. This way we don't need to sudo and get no prompt when running minicom!

I can now run minicom on my configured COM port 4 (/dev/ttyS4) with wsl -d DISTRONAME minicom without sudo.

Here I'm talking to that Arduino program. This embedded app doesn't need to me hit enter after I type, so remember your own embedded devices will vary.

Make a nice menu

Bonus points, now I'll add a menu item for Minicom by changing my Windows Terminal settings AND I'll get more points for adding a nice serial port icon!

I hit settings and add a new profile like this at the top under profiles in the 'list.' Again, your distro name will be different.

To review:

• Use a WSL1 distro
• Install minicom, run with minicom -s once to make settings
  • Make sure you are using the right /dev/ttyS0 device for your situation
  • Ensure your flow control, baud, etc are all correct in minicom
  • Add your user to the dialout group so you don't have to sudo minicom
• Make a menu item in Windows Terminal
  • or run minicom manually in your WSL1 instance whenever you like

Hope this helps!

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If you are on a physical Windows 7 PC simply skip down to Step 2.

Step 1: Connect your Arduino to your Windows 7 VirtualBox machine.

Start up your Windows 7VirtualBox and plug your Arduino into your Mac. Then click on the usb icon on the lower right corer of the Virtual machine window and make sure that “FTDI FT232R USB UART [0600]” is checked as seen below:

Step 2: Download the drivers

You can download them at: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%20v2.12.00%20WHQL%20Certified.zip

Step 3: Extract the zip file of the drivers into a folder on your desktop.

I’ll call the folder CDM:

If you are on Windows 7 you simply double click the zip file which just “opens” the zip file like it is a folder. Then click and drag the contents into another folder you must create on the desktop, I called it CDM.

Step 4: Click on the Start Menu and then right click on “Computer” and click on Properties.

Step 5: Open the “Device Manager.”

Click on “Device Manager” in the Computer Properties:

Step 6: Locate the FT232R USB UART device in the device manager list:

Step 7: Right click on “FT232R USB UART” and click on properties.

Step 8: Click on the “Driver” tab of the Properties window and then click on the “Update Driver…” button:

Step 9: Click on “Browse my computer for driver software”:

Step 10: Click on “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”

Step 11: Click on “Show All Devices” (should be automatically selected) and the click the “Next” button:

Step 12: Click the “Have Disk” Button:

Step 13: Click the “Browse” button:

Step 14: Browse to the location of the drivers.

Click on the “Desktop” Icon in the left window and browse to the folder you extracted the drivers into in step 3 and then open the folder that holds the drivers:

Step 15: Click on the ftdibus file and click the “Open” button.

Note, the file may be called ftdibus.inf if you have the preference turned on to show known file extensions:

Click on the “OK” button in the resulting window that pops up:

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Step 16: Select “USB Serial Convertor” from the list and click the “Next” button:

Step 17: Click “Yes” to override the warning window.

It is warning you that Window cannot verify this driver (you get this error because it is a cloned Arduino board and the driver is unsigned):

Step 18: Wait a while.

It will take a little while for the driver to install and then if you are successful you will get the following message, which you can click the “Close” button:

Click the “Close” button to close the USB Serial Converter Properties window:

Step 19: Back in the Device Manager Window right-click on “USB Serial Port” and Click on “Properties”:

Step 20: Click on the Driver tab and click the “Driver Update…” button:

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Step 21: Click on “Browse my computer for driver software”

Step 22: Click on “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”

Step 23: Click “Show All Devices” and click the next button:

Step 24: Click on the “Have Disk” button:

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Step 25: Click on the “Browse” button, and browse to the same folder you browsed to in Step 14:

Step 26: Click on “ftdiport” and click the “Open” button:

Click the “OK” button to install from disk:

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Step 27: Select “USB Serial Port” from the list and click the “Next” button:

Click the “Yes” button to go past the unsigned driver warning message:

You will get this window if you are successful and you can click the “Close” button:

You can then close the USB Serial Port Window by clicking the “Close” button:

You will see this if you are successful:

And now if you launch the Arduino software and click on Tools > Port you will see the COM port listed. Success!

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