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Unknown device with Pixhawk

Posted by David Dominguez on January 28, 2014 at 6:53am

I just got my Pixhawk in and I installed APM planner 2.0, then connected the pixhawk, but my desktop computer won't detect it and neither will APM planner 2.0.

When I look in device manager in Windows 8, it just says unrecognized device. I tried searching for a new driver and pointing it to the APM planner folder, but it doesn't find any drivers for it.

I tried the same with a windows 8 laptop and same issue.

Any ideas?

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    Craig Elder February 3, 2014 at 10:21am

    There have been problems with the driver on the PX4 site.  Please use this one

    http://ardupilot.com/downloads/?did=54

    You will also find the correct drivers in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Mission Planner\Driver

    folder of Mission Planner

  • David Dominguez January 28, 2014 at 7:17am

    Found a way around it if anyone else has that problem in windows 8.

    I downloaded the PX4 driver from the official website. I then rebooted windows 8 into the mode that allows the installation of unsigned drivers.

    I was then able to manually install the PX4 driver and flash the firmware successfully on the Pixhawk.

    • Alejandro Hincapié > David Dominguez October 31, 2014 at 11:34am

      Hello David,
      I have not been able to load the firmware to my PIXhawk possibly be that the bootloader is not working. Do you know how I can upload firmware to my PIXHAWK?
      thank you very much.

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