thanks for your answer - I went through my directories and verified - then uninstalled the drivers and went one more time through the installation as described in the user guide - the result is still the same
quoting the user guide:
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First, install DFU drivers (for uploading code to your Maple) using the following steps.
Plug your Maple into the USB port.
Hit the reset button on your Maple (it’s the small button at the bottom left, labeled RESET). Notice that it blinks quickly 6 times, then blinks slowly a few more times.
Hit reset again, and this time push and hold the other button during the 6 fast blinks (the button is on the top right; it is labeled BUT). You can release it once the slow blinks start.
Your Maple is now in perpetual bootloader mode. This should give you a chance to install the DFU drivers.
Windows should now prompt you for some drivers. In the top level directory of the Maple IDE, point Windows to drivers/mapleDrv/dfu/.
Next, install serial drivers (for communicating with your Maple using serial over USB).
Reset your Maple and allow it to exit the bootloader (wait for the slow blinking to stop). The Maple will next start running whatever program was uploaded to it last. (New Maples will start running the test program we upload to them before shipping them to you).
Once Maple is running some user code, Windows should prompt you for more drivers. Point windows to driver/mapleDrv/serial.
You can now run the Maple IDE by double-clicking on the maple-ide program from within the extracted IDE directory.
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end of quote - all of this seems to work just fine - but I still do not get any functional serial port - the only port shown in IDE>Tools>SerialPort is COM3 which is checked
driver/mapleDrv/serial contains 4 files:
maple_serial.inf
msports.dll
serenum.sys
usbser.sys
when poked by the device driver window, I point the directory to drivers/mapleDrv/serial and assume that it would pick the appropriate files
I dump maple_serial.inf below
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;
; STMicroelectronics Comunication Device Class driver instalation file
; (C)2006 Copyright STMicroelectronics
;
[Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"
Class=Ports
ClassGuid={4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Provider=%STM%
LayoutFile=layout.inf
[Manufacturer]
%MFGNAME%=VirComDevice,NT,NTamd64
[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir = 12
[VirComDevice.NT]
%DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall,USB\VID_1EAF&PID_0004
%DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall,USB\VID_1EAF&PID_0004
[VirComDevice.NTamd64]
%DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall,USB\VID_1EAF&PID_0004
%DESCRIPTION%=DriverInstall,USB\VID_1EAF&PID_0004
[DriverInstall.NT]
Include=mdmcpq.inf
CopyFiles=FakeModemCopyFileSection
AddReg=DriverInstall.NT.AddReg
[DriverInstall.NT.AddReg]
HKR,,DevLoader,,*ntkern
HKR,,NTMPDriver,,usbser.sys
HKR,,EnumPropPages32,,"MsPorts.dll,SerialPortPropPageProvider"
[DriverInstall.NT.Services]
AddService=usbser, 0x00000002, DriverServiceInst
[DriverServiceInst]
DisplayName=%SERVICE%
ServiceType=1
StartType=3
ErrorControl=1
ServiceBinary=%12%\usbser.sys
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; String Definitions
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Strings]
STM = "LeafLabs"
MFGNAME = "LeafLabs"
DESCRIPTION = "Maple R3"
SERVICE = "USB Virtual COM port"
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end of dump
the device manager shows "libusb-win32 devices" as "Maple R3" which is the description given in the file maple_serial.inf - based on this I assume that the inf file was read but that one of the parameters in it is wrong for Windows XP SP3
I hope I don't annoy you guys with my ignorance in pc-medicine
thanks
Hans
