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Yesterady, after a long time and updating my laptop to W10, I decided to play again a bit with my N2P. I've got a new shield I would try to include in my app. And yesterday evening I could easily deplay a clean new project (no functionality at all) and I was happy that all worked fine with W10.
But today I couldn't deploy it anymore, deployment windows always display "Iteration xx".
Then I tryed MFDeploy, which couldn't find my N2P. So I decided to reinstall firmware 4.3.2. The update tool did it's work, no errors. But MFDeploy still doesn't find the device.
The DfuSe Demo can see the device.
Any suggestions I can try more to get my N2P to work?
And today I also would start with "yesterday" beacuse yesterday I've had his problem. Today morning I decided to give the problem a new try. And today it works, wihtout any changes since yesterday. The same way it didn't work yesterday it works today.
One thing I recognized, may be it gives someone a hint.
When I plug in the USB to the computer, there is a sound when it plugs in and out. This sound I heared today. Yesterday, when I've had the problem, this sound wasn't there. But it happened occationly while the N2P was plugged in. I mean the plug in and out was played randomly and not only once. If someone thinks I should reboot the computer, I did this yesterday felt 100 times.
Coming home from work I was trying if my N2P is still working and hurra, it did. I coded some lines and tested it. I was happy able to continue after dinner.
While sitting at the table and eating something, I heared the the sound as disconnecting from USB. I didn't touch the PC and N2P at that time. And what should I tell, the error is back.
Now my question is. I have considered having a bad internet connection (I'm in a hotel with very bad wlan). And in the evening the connection is very often broken. Can this correlate with my problem?
I still havng the problem getting the N2P to work, can anyone help me?
What I considered during the last days is, that there is no Netduino driver in the USB folder of the device manager. I deinstalled and reinstalled the Netduino SDK (version from May 2015). The most mysterium for is, why it works for a small time and then it doesn't. I can now reproduce the following. The longer I do not connect the N2P to my laptop, the longer it works. Plugging in the N2P in the morning I get it working for about 10-15 minutes. During this time there is also the Netduino driver shown in the device manager. But when it is disconneceted, and I try it emmidiatly, it doesn't connect again. Only if I wait between to connection for abaout 10-15 minutes, I get a signal, that the N2P is connected, but disconnects emmidiatly.The longer I wait between the tries, the longer it takes until it disconnects. It doesn't matter to rebbot the computer.
I assume now, there is a problem with the driver. I uninstalled the driver during the small window it was shown in the devce manager and reinstalled the SDK. Same behaviour as before. Is there a chance to install the driver separately?
I have tested with several MicroUSB cables, since I use several of them, at least 5. All of them work properly with other devices (smart phone, raspberry pi 2).
And yes, when I have enough time to deploy to zhe N2P, then the program runs properly, even if I cannot establish a connecion. I have a tested it with a program sennding messages to a REST server and the messages are received there.
I assume stil, that the driver does not work properly in W10, because when it doesn't work, it also isn't shown in the drivers list, but it is, when it works.
I'm struggling a bit here to figure out a way to help diagnose the issue.
Do you happen to have any other Netduinos, to see if you get the same experience with multiple boards?
I use Windows 10 x64 on my main laptop with Netduino (using the standard Netduino drivers) and haven't had any issues--but drivers can be tricky things.
P.S. Are you running Windows 10 on a Mac by any chance?
After a very long time today I've has enough time to play with Windows 10 and the Netduino.
I installed a new W10 on my dektop, installed Visual Studo 2015, the MicroFrameWork SDK and the Netduino SDK.
And now I can report, thet the behaviour on my Desktop computer is the same as on the Laptop. The USB driver for Netduino permanently connects and disconnects, I can hear it playing the sound. Since the desktop has totally different hardware and all other USB devises work well with both computers, I now assume it must be something wrong with the driver.