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Netduino Plus 2 Firmware Upgrade in Windows 7 64 bit edition

NNetduino Plus 2 Firmware v4

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#1 smdunio

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Posted 17 February 2015 - 11:28 AM

Hi Everyone,

                   I was trying to upgrade my Netduino Plus 2 Firmware to v4.3.1.  I erased the Netduino using the gold pad and 3.3V. After reboot of Netduino, the drivers would not install on Windows 7 x64. In the device manager its showing unknown device. I have installed the following

  1. Microsoft .net Micro Framework SDK 4.2 (QFE2)
  2. Netduino SDK v4.3.1 (Nov 2014)
  3. DfuSe Demo V3.0.2 Setup amd64 (STMicroelectronics)
  4. sam-ba_2.15
  5. Microsoft VIsual C# 2010 Express

When I am connecting the device in the Bootloader mode windows is unable to recognize. In MFDeploy when I am selecting the USB  Netduino Plus 2 is not flashing up automatically. I tried it  many ways. 

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If anyone can help it would be good for me. Is my Netduino is dead how can I check that.

 

Thanks in Advanced.

 



#2 Wernfried

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Posted 18 February 2015 - 08:44 AM

I had a similar problem, not with W7 but with W8.1. Unfortunately I posted my question in the wrong topic.

 

http://forums.netdui...-recognize-n2p/

 

I figured out, that the USB driver was not installed together with SDK 4.3 for some reason. Chris told me, the drivers should be installed, but they weren't. I had success with manualy installing the drivers from a 4.2 installation.

 

Here is the whole process I'd run into this problem.

First the 4.2 was installed, all worked well

After switching to Visual Studio 2013 I installed the 4.3 beta and it worked also well

The I read, Mcrosoft released the 4.3 RTM and I installed it. With this installation it seemed the previuos Netduino 4.3 SDK was gone, I couldn't compile my projects anymore, missing assemblies.

Then I reinstalled the Netduino SDK but the driver for USB was missing. Plugging in the N+2, Windows tried to install the USB driver, but ended up with an error.

 

Chris mentioned, that the USB driver shall be in the folder "C:\Program Files\Secret Labs\Netduino SDK\Drivers" for 64bit-Systems. But there wasn't. I have had a second installation on another laptop (not the 4.3 RTM) and so I could copy the USB driver. Now installing the USB driver manually and all worked as a glance.

 

May be there is a missing step during installation of the Netduino SDK when there exists an other version. Publishing the USB driver here in the forum separately from the SDK could help others I think.



#3 Chris Walker

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Posted 18 February 2015 - 08:39 PM

Hi smdunio,

On the newer gen2 gear, the gold pad is just a shiny alignment marker for the assembly robots. Erasing boards before reflashing was only required on the original gen1 gear.

To reflash your Netduino Plus 2 (gen2) board, you'll use Netduino Update. The ST flashing drivers should, in theory, download automatically via Windows Update. If not...grab a copy of the ST DFU tools (as linked in the forum post alongside the firmware).

Does that help get you up and running?

Chris




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