button to navigate to the folder that you extracted the drivers to, then click the Next button as shown below.
In the dialog box that opens, click Browse my computer for driver software.
Right-click CP2102 in the Device Manager window and select Update driver software. Click Device Manager in the search results to open it as shown below. The device driver installation will fail.Ĭlick the Windows Start button and search for device manager. Use a USB cable to plug the board into a PC USB port.
CP2102 Driver Download Install CP2102 DriverĮxtract the contents of the downloaded zipped driver file and copy the contents to a folder on your PC.
For Windows 7 and 10 download from the Download VCP link as shown highlighted by a red dot below. Go to the CP210x USB to UART Bridge VCP Drivers page and select the driver for your version of Windows. After drivers have been loaded, the board appears as a virtual COM port (VCP) on the PC. For example, it appears as ttyUSB0 on my Linux Mint computer.Īlso try the following command before and after plugging the board in to see if the board is configured as a ttyUSB device.ĭrivers must be installed on Windows systems for the Silicon Labs CP2102 USB-to-UART bridge chip. The new device starting with tty that appears in the list is the ESP32 Devkit board. Now plug the board in and run the same command again. Plug the ESP32 Devkit board into the Linux PC using a USB cable and enter the following command to find the name of the port that the board is connected to.Ī more basic and manual test to see if the drivers on a Linux computer have loaded is to first enter the following command in a terminal window without the board plugged into the PC. Linux drivers should already be installed on most Linux systems. The next basic test is to see if the board can be detected by the operating system and load drivers for it. This confirms that the 3.3V power from the on-board regulator is working. The first and most basic test that can be done is to power up the board via a USB cable and to check that the red LED lights up as shown in the image below.
There should be no need to install the LuaNode software on the board, it should already be installed when purchased.
It also shows how to install Windows drivers for the board and how to communicate with the board from a serial port terminal program in Windows and Linux.
This article shows how to do some basic initial tests to see if a new ESP32 Devkit board is working.