[Microbit-Python] Windows

[Dave Hylands]

Hi David,

I'll take your word for it. The newest Windows machine I have is Windows 7,
and that's one of those really cheap $300 laptops.

Dave Hylands

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:34 PM, David Whale <david at thinkingbinaries.com>
wrote:

> There's no digital signature in that file. So on windows >= 8.1 you'll
> have to restart 4 or 5 times with administrator access in order to get the
> driver to install by disabling the "driver enforcement mode" feature that
> they added in 8.1
>
>
>
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> On 26 November 2015 at 23:53, Dave Hylands <dhylands at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The signed bits are provided by Microsoft.
>>
>> Microspft provides the driver file, called usbser.sys
>>
>> I've attached the file that shows up on the pyboard.
>>
>> I'm assuming that the microbit shows as just a cdc interface, in which
>> case you'll want to edit the two lines near the end:
>>
>> %DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall, USB\VID_f055&PID_9800&MI_00,
>> USB\VID_f055&PID_9800&MI_01
>>
>> and remove everything from the comma to the end of the line and change
>> the VID & PID.
>>
>> The strings at the end of the file probably should also be tweaked
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:44 PM, David Whale <david at thinkingbinaries.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does it have a digital signature in it? If not, you have to do about 5
>>> restarts on windows 8.1 to remove 'driver enforcement mode'.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ___________________________________________________________
>>> David Whale, B.Sc (Hons), MIET
>>> *Software Engineer and IET Schools Liaison Officer, Essex*
>>>
>>> email:  dwhale at theiet.org
>>> twitter: @whaleygeek
>>> blog:  blog.whaleygeek.co.uk
>>>
>>> Co-author of global bestselling book "Adventures in Minecraft"
>>> <http://amzn.to/ZGfxZG> - lets get kids coding!
>>> Now in English, Spanish, Chinese and Russian.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 November 2015 at 23:33, Dave Hylands <dhylands at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Couldn't we take a copy of the pycdc.inf one that comes with
>>>> MicroPython and tweak it for the microbit?
>>>> That could be on the same thumb drive as the terminal program.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Damien George <
>>>> damien.p.george at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The best solution would be if Microsoft enabled a standard, generic
>>>>> USB CDC serial driver for any serial device that was plugged in to the
>>>>> USB port, just like Linux and Mac already do.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Radomir Dopieralski
>>>>> <microbit at sheep.art.pl> wrote:
>>>>> > On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:39:48 +0000
>>>>> > Jonathan Austin <Jonathan.Austin at arm.com> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > [snip - problems on Windows]
>>>>> >
>>>>> > It would be awesome to just ship a Raspberry Pi with those, so that
>>>>> we
>>>>> > don't have to deal with Windows ever again ;-) and more importantly,
>>>>> > have a consistent environment that we control.
>>>>> >
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