Re: [Flashforth-devel] Using serialcdc.inf with Windows 10

[Mikael N. <mik...@fl...>]

I do  not have Windows...

Anyway, Google returns a heap of results for your problem.

None of those helped ?

BR Mike

On 2016-09-15 16:42, Conrado Seibel wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Is anyone running ff-shell or a terminal emulator on Windows 10 to
> interface to a PIC18F running the console over the USB port ? How did
> you get it to work ?
> 
> I’m using FF on a PIC18F2455 to control a led matrix display that
> interfaces over the serial port to a measurement instrument. The Forth
> console is implemented on the USB port of the PIC. I’m using two
> background tasks and things work very nicely. Congrats to all people
> involved in this amazing piece of code.
> 
> What I would like to do is use the USB console as a ‘service’ port for
> the instrument. I’ve implemented and tested the functionality and it
> works as intended. In our team we only use Linux and Mac OSX and
> interfacing to with the PIC over USB using a terminal emulator
> (picocom) worked pretty well. However, the end users will probably run
> Windows.
> 
> I’ve tried connecting the PIC to a Windows 10 machine but it wasn’t
> recognised. I applied for a VID/PID using the Microchip sub-licensing
> program, changed the corresponding values in the ASM source code and
> also in the serialcdc.inf file and tried to install it in Windows,
> only to get a “The third party INF does not contain digital signature
> information” error (which is true).
> 
> I’m not familiar with Windows and a two-hour google session on
> self-signing inf files didn’t result in me getting any smarter.
> Searching for how to disable signature checking in Windows 10 didn’t
> bring me any further either.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
> 
> 
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