I've loaded the Mission Planner onto my pc for ARDUPILOT. And on the Device Manager of my pc - under PORTS (COM & LPT), ARDUINO MEGA 2560 (COM5) is listed, BUT! It has the yellow warning symbol showing on it? This is preventing me from connecting to the ARDUPILOT board. Anyone have any ideas as to what the problem is ? Thanks...
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I think found the problem? (The driver's for ARDUINO MEGA are not being installed on my pc?) I've uninstalled and reinstalled Mission Planner several times. But every time I look in Device Manager on my pc, the yellow warning symbol is showing next to ARDUINO MEGA 2560. *The drivers simply will not load for Mission Planner.* I'm running Windows 7, it has to be a compatability issue between my pc running Windows 7, and the open source software of Mission Planner?
Hey Joe,
Have you tried unistalling and reinstalling the usb driver rather than Mission Planner, here are the instructions from the wiki, try this.
I'm running Mission planner on my windows 7 pc with no problems.
Martin.
Hi Martin,
Yes I tried that. (No luck?) The APM module powers up,*lights* when the USB cable is attached, but it won't connect to the my pc. My pc doesn't detect the APM module? I have that yellow warning showing in device manager over ARDUINO MEGA 2560? That's what makes me think it's a compatibility issue between the pc and the software?
Thanks for the input...
Joe
Just and update. I checked, and the driver's installed on my pc for the ARDUINO MEGA 2560 are 32 bit drivers, but my system is a 64 bit system. I tried to update the drivers but that didn't work? So I need to the 64 bit drivers for that APM, then install them on my pc for the APM to work...
Joe, my pc is running windows 7 home premium SP1 64bit, and I'm pretty sure I didn't need to do anything other than use the drivers that MP auto installed for me, not that this helps you much, maybe one of the driver gurus here could help out.
Hi Martin,
Yes, that's what I'm running - 7/64 bit/Sp1. I tried the auto install several times, update the driver. And the message I receive is the driver for the ARDUINO is current? But I still get that yellow warning next to ARDUINO, in Device Manager? The board powers up but won't connect to the pc. I'm wondering if the "board" is bad then?
Joe...
After going over through this problem. I've come to the conclusion that it is a compatibility issue between my computer and the open source software of Mission Planner. The Mission Planner software does not load correctly on my pc, and that is why when I open Device Manager on it there is the Yellow Warning symbol. (Driver issue?)
So that shows me that something is wrong between the computer and the Mission Planner software download? A Corrupt file, 32 bit drivers trying to run on a 64 bit system, something?
Several of the most common Device Status details..., all of these cases (together with other device driver related troubles) can be fixed by installing the correct and updated device drivers,either for your USB device or for the USB Host Controller of your PC. I click on the update driver software in Device manager, pc searches and tells me that my computer tells has the latest drivers installed for ARDUINO MEGA 2560. BUT! (I look and I see that I have 32 bits drivers installed on my pc, but my system is 64 bit. And on my Device Manager I have that Yellow Warning symbol over ARDUINO MEGA. So something is wrong with it?)
You must remember that you need to install the correct and compatible device drivers based on your OS (if it’s 32-bit or 64-bit,) since there are device drivers that are only designed for 64-bit OS and will not function properly when installed on Windows 7 32-bit OS. You can check your OS bit-type by clicking the Start button, then right-click Computer, select Properties, and then look for the System type.
Since I am running a 64 bit OS, then I need 64 bit drivers for the APM module, (not an emulator.) 32 bit drivers are the only drivers that Mission Planner would download onto my computer. So I need to find 64 bit drivers. And then again? I could have a "bad APM module"? And I won't know if that is the case until I get another APM module to use...?
Joe, it is original Mission Planner that you're using, have you tried loading APM Planner 2, which does the same thing but can be used with alternative operating systems.
Deleted the APM 2.0, and did a clean install 2.0, but this time without the drivers. Then I went to Device Manager, and on ARDUINO MEGA 2560 I click on update device drivers. It searched found them, but would not install them?
Error message: Windows found driver software for your device, but encountered a system error while trying to install them.
The device cannot start ,(Code 10)
Now I'm wondering if my Virus Protection is preventing the drivers from loading?
I tried using that one also. It is listed as COM PORT 5 in Device Manager, but when I try to use APM 2 I get this error message. *Unable to open COM Port 5*?
Tried to connect and I got this error message; Error opening Port. No such file directory?
APM 2 message...
Finished downloading C:/Users/Office/AppData/Local/Temp/qt_temp.Nk4584
Opening firmware file...
Hex file loaded: 233322 bytes
Unable to open COM port: COM5