asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf 0 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 I'm extremely new to microcontrollers so please bear with me. I followed these steps exactly: http://energia.nu/pin-maps/guide_msp430f5529launchpad/When I plug in my board I can play around with the little button press application it comes with no problem. The issue is when I launch Energia, I can't select the serial port (the option is greyed out). I checked device manager and MSP Application UART and MSP Debug Interface both show up in "Other devices" with exclamations next to them. This is Windows 7 64 bit by the way. What could I have possibly done wrong? I'll also add that at one point I downloaded the CDC driver here: https://github.com/energia/Energia/raw/gh-pages/files/EZ430-UART.zip and ran the 64 bit option. I've since unstalled it and still nothing works. What did I do wrong? Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 @@asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf If all you did was plug it in, that's to be expected. Download drivers from http://energia.nu/Guide_Windows.html or install CCS from TI's website (registration required). asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf 0 Posted October 17, 2014 Author Share Posted October 17, 2014 @@asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf If all you did was plug it in, that's to be expected. Download drivers from http://energia.nu/Guide_Windows.html or install CCS from TI's website (registration required). Well that did fix my problem... I don't get it though. As I said in my original post, I installed the driver (same one) and it did nothing for me. Is there a difference between the one I linked to and the one you linked to? Regardless, I appreciate it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 @@asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf I have no idea what may have happened. Glad to hear it's working now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greeeg 460 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 The drivers you downloaded appear to be for the ez430 boards. Which are an older TI standard and require a completely different driver to communicate with the F5529 launchpad. asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
energia 484 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 I just updated the Windows guide. See MSP-EXP430F5529LP and MSP-EXP430FR5969 LaunchPad on http://energia.nu/guide/guide_windows/ Previously it erroneously stated that no drivers were required for the MSP-EXP430F5529LP LaunchPad. This was wrong, it does need drivers on Windows. Notice that these drivers are different than the drivers for the MSP-EXP430G2 and MSP-EXP430FR5739 LaunchPad (aka ez430). asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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