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Timmo
 
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Driver confuision

Post by Timmo »

I'm completley new to Arduino and have just bought a boarduino kit and
FTDI chip USB/Serial cable at a Maker fair here in the UK.
I'm confused about drivers!
I've built the board and am raring to go but - do I need to just get
the FTDI driver for this cable or do I also need the Aduino USB driver
in addition? If both, in what order should I install them?
I guess the FTDI driver communicates with the chip in the cable but
dose it also fulfill the same function as the Arduino USB driver?
Specifically the cable is the TTL-232R-3V3 USB to Serial Cable I'm
running WinXP(v5.1)with SP3.

Thanks,
Tim

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nj08512
 
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Re: Driver confuision

Post by nj08512 »

I believe the Arduino software comes with a set of the FTDI drivers. I went to the FTDI site and got the latest driver. I did not install the driver that came with Arduino-018.

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Re: Driver confuision

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the ftdi cable and arduino use the same driver
check out 'lesson 0' :)
http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/

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