[Microbit-Python] Windows

[David Whale]

This is the torture I had to push my windows users through on win 8.1 to
install a 'standard' CDC USBSER driver:

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/disabling-driver-signature-on-windows-8

Since my book was published, sparkfun have now signed all their drivers. If
we can get a signed driver for the micro:bit serial class, all of this pain
will go away.





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On 27 November 2015 at 06:46, Dave Hylands <dhylands at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________
>> 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 23:53, 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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