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vegipete

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Posted: 09:22am 14 Oct 2015

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Is the driver for connecting the MicroMite Plus to Windows supposed to be hard to find?

I finally got around to building, flashing and testing one of Grogster's MM+ Explore 64 boards. That all went fine and I plugged it in a USB port. My Win7 box recognized the existance of the MicroMite device, but stopped there for lack of a driver. It took a remarkably long time googling and searching here to find a driver that would work. I eventually found a functional driver in Geoff's Intelligent Fan Driver package. The MicroMite+ now enumerates as a Silicon Chip (?) device and seems to work correctly. TeraTerm works and I can create test programs so that is all good.

But why is the driver so hard to find? Can't it be included with the MicroMite firmware?

(It would be really cool if the MicroMite could alternately enumerate as a (small) USB thumb drive with the required driver file. One can dream...)

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TassyJim

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Posted: 10:08am 14 Oct 2015

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vegipete said Is the driver for connecting the MicroMite Plus to Windows supposed to be hard to find?

http://geoffg.net/Downloads/Maximite/Silicon_Chip_USB_Serial_Port_Driver.zip

Silicon Chip because that is the magazine that will feature the MM+.

Once the MM+ is out of beta, there will be a dedicated page on Geoff's website.

Jim

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Posted: 02:02pm 14 Oct 2015

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Sorry you had such a hard time finding the driver.

As Jim said....

Also, MOST people who have played with the MM at all, already have the driver on their system, and the MM+ just uses the same SC driver, so provided you have used a Maximite(B/W or Colour) at some point on the USB cable, then the MM+ should pick up and use that.

Obviously, you have not.(used a b/w or colour maximite)
This means that Bill Gates moans about the driver.

You have a good point though, so I will start including the SC driver package with the download from my website soon. Better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.

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