Driver installation - solar3s/goregen GitHub Wiki

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Before being able to communicate with your Regenbox, drivers must be installed. This is dependant on your OS/Architecture, and some might encounter more issues than other in doing so.

USB to serial driver

on windows

windows automatic update should work. Simply plug-in the device and wait for windows to install the driver automatically. You should be able to see the device in the Printers & Devices section from Configuration Panel as a serial device on port COMX.

If that's not the case, try these for CH341 (shipped in your Regenbox)

• http://www.mediafire.com/file/c9pyi2u7g93iqt6/CH341SER.ZIP

If you happen to have an original Arduino, try one of these

• http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41
• http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm

on osx

ch340 clone (the one shipped by default with regenbox)

Some people have seen these driver work for the ch340 on osx, some have more trouble, you need to hack around these blog posts a bit and see for yourself, try them in order

• http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Nano-CH340/
• http://www.homautomation.org/2015/02/05/how-to-use-arduinos-with-ch340g-ch341g-serialusb-ftdi-chip/
• https://blog.sengotta.net/signed-mac-os-driver-for-winchiphead-ch340-serial-bridge/
• http://www.codenuke.net/2015/01/nodemcu-install-ch340-usb-to-serial-for-yosemite.html

Other resources:

• http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=101052.0

original Arduino

These should work properly with original Arduino Nano

• http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=229&pcid=41
• http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/InstallGuides.htm

on linux

drivers are included by default in recent linux kernel (2.6 onwards I think), so you should be ok on this end. To check that your device is properly recognized, plug it in and run dmesg, or simply check the existence of /dev/ttyUSB* or similar

$ dmesg
(...)
[406870.963930] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 29 using ehci-pci
[406871.056980] usb 4-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=7523
[406871.056990] usb 4-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[406871.056994] usb 4-1.1: Product: USB2.0-Serial
[406871.057400] ch341 4-1.1:1.0: ch341-uart converter detected
[406871.059079] usb 4-1.1: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0
$ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jun  7 12:30 /dev/ttyUSB0