Kommentar: Einfügen von HTML im Kommentar: Link einfügen: <a href="LINKURL" target="_blank">LINKTITEL</a> Bild einfügen: <img src="BILDURL"> Text formatieren: <b>fetter Text</b> <i>kursiver Text</i> <u>unterstrichener Text</u> Kombinationen sind auch möglich z.B.: <b><i>fetter & kursiver Text</i></b> C Quellcode formatieren: <code>Quellcode</code> BASIC Quellcode formatieren: <basic>Quellcode</basic> (Innerhalb eines Quellcodeabschnitts ist kein html möglich.) Wichtig: Bitte mache Zeilenumbrüche, bevor Du am rechten Rand des Eingabefeldes ankommst ! -> I > > Hi all, > > > > Last year I have many times tried to install a driver for the Voltcraft USB programmer cable in > > Windows 7 64 bit. Despite many advices on this forum, I did not succeed. And I was not the only > > one. The driver “Treiber für Voltcraft USB Programmer (VISTA 32/64 Bit, Windows7 32/64 Bit)” > > which is available on http://www.c-control.de/c-control-pro/software,_treiber, > > _downloads/software,_treiber,_downloads.html did not work, even when it’s name promises so. > > Frustrating! But last week I finally got a driver installed! > > > > The procedure I had to follow is so complicated that one can hardly expect a ProBot128 beginner > > to find it out for himself. If other contributors to this list got it working too, as they wrote, I wonder > > why no one ever posted a decent step by step procedure. Peter? > > Anyway, I hope to do other Windows 7 64 bit users a favor with the following instruction. > > > > 1. Remove the driver that came with the Voltcraft USB programmer cable if you installed it. To do > > this, plug in the cable and delete the corresponding entry in the Device Manager. > > > > 2. Remove the cable and don’t plug it in again until after the last step. > > > > 3. Remove all virtual com port (VCP) drivers you installed previously. Use Control Panel. > > > > 4. Download CP210x_VCP_Win_XP_S2K3_Vista_7.exe from > > <a href="http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx > > " target="_blank">http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx > > </a> > > 5. Run this program to install version 6.5 of the Silabs VCP driver. This driver is intended for use > > with certain Silabs CP210x products and will not work with the programmer cable. To make it work, > > one has to adapt the file slabvcp.inf before (!) installing the driver. The problem is that this file is > > only present on disk when the driver is already installed. The following is to get round this problem. > > > > 6. The Silabs files are default copied to C:\SiLabs\. > > Go to C:\SiLabs\MCU\CP210x\Windows_XP_S2K3_Vista_7 and open the file slabvcp.inf. > > > > 7. In this file change the vendor ID to that of the programmer cable: USB\VID_179A&PID_41AF. > > To do that, change the lines below [SiLabs] and [SiLabs.NTamd64] as follows: > > > > [SiLabs] > > %USB\VID_179A&PID_41AF.DeviceDesc%=silabser.Dev, USB\VID_179A&PID_41AF > > > > [SiLabs.NTamd64] > > %USB\VID_179A&PID_41AF.DeviceDesc%=silabser.Dev, USB\VID_179A&PID_41AF > > > > 8. Make a copy of the complete folder C:\SiLabs\ with sub folders and place it somewhere else, > > e.g. on the desktop. > > > > 9. Go to Control Panel to remove the Silabs driver you just installed. This will erase the complete > > folder C:\SiLabs\. > > > > 10. Copy the saved Silabs folder (the one on the desktop) to C:\. > > > > 11. Go to C:\SiLabs\MCU\CP210x\Windows_XP_S2K3_Vista_7 and run CP210xVCPInstaller.exe. > > This will install the Silabs driver again but now with the correct Vendor ID in the file slabvcp.inf. > > > > 12. Plug in the programmer cable and check in Device Manager whether the driver is installed > > correctly. There should be an entry: > > Ports (COM & LPT) > > with sub entry: > > %USB\VID_179A&PID_41AF.DeviceDesc%(COM3) > > > > Succes! > > Pepe > > Hello Pepe, > > the V 1.0 Programmer (see CD Lable) works only with 32-bit Systems (Vista & Win7). > The new version V 2.0 works mith 64-bit. > The old programmer V 1.0, you need to reprogram the factory settings. > Then you can use the original driver. > > http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx > > See AN144 and use the CP210xSetIDs.exe to reprogram. > > VID, PID and divece string see attachemend.. > > Best regards, > > Ulli > >
