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   bart_dood
   Member

   About the throw these maple boards in the trash, I'm on Windows 7 64bit and I've spent a few hours trying to get them working, they won't even go into perpetual bootloader mode and I can't upload anything.

   Why isn't the maple team fixing this???

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   bart_dood
   Member

   I've tried disabling windows approved drivers etc, I've tried installing from DFU and serial folders in the maple folder, I've tried libusb-win32 driver also.

   I've tried two different computers.

   Nothing else I can do?

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   bart_dood
   Member

   Finally got it to work, leaflabs needs to make this easier. Too much hassle for windows 7/8, who uses XP anymore?

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   feurig
   Member

   You need to talk to microsoft about its drivers policy.

   Posted 3 years ago #
5. 

   StephenFromNYC
   Moderator

   Hello @bart_dood,

   Welcome to the world of LeafLabs boards.

   I am glad you stuck with it and managed to get your Maple board to work.

   I occasionally like to vent, but I find helping others is equally satisfying.

   Please refer to the "Guidelines for Posting" sticky. We know you are using Win 7 64-bit, but we do not know which software (eg. IDE version) you are using or which Maple board (eg. revision) you have.

   Details describing what you tried are important. For example, the ability of your Maple board to enter perpetual bootloader mode should be OS independent. Which buttons are (were) you pressing and how are (were) you pressing the buttons?

   What documentation were you trying to follow (please provide link if possible)? What was unclear? What did not work?

   What did you do to finally get things up and running.

   In other words, specifically, how can the current documentation be improved?

   Thanks!

   PS- I am not a member of the LeafLabs team.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   feurig
   Member

   Sorry about my retort. There have been a lot of issues lately due to the way that Micro$oft mis-implements the usb spec. (if it says its a cdu/dfu/... and acts like one load your driver and work; you're done). In the arduino world this was resolved by the teams insistence on using a closed source proprietary chip which charged them money (the ftdi has been the most expensive part of almost any arduino board using it) to maintain drivers that could get along with the geniuses in redmond. There is an improved set of documents for bringing up the maple on Microsoft but it hasn't made it into the released documents yet. In the mean time rather than making things better windows 8 is tightening down on its drivers fiasco by extorting money from developers for driver "signing". I only hope that apple doesn't follow suit.

   Posted 3 years ago #

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