After today's vscode upgrade boards aren't detecting on my pc & on my colleagues pc neither.
While same board is getting detected on another one of my colleagues pc.
Kindly help mitigate this update issue
After today's vscode upgrade boards aren't detecting on my pc & on my colleagues pc neither.
While same board is getting detected on another one of my colleagues pc.
Kindly help mitigate this update issue
Hi,
Could you tell me your VSCode version as well as your nRF Connect VSCode extension version?
-Priyanka
Hello,
What is more strange is:
Board is not visible :
But I am able to erase flash & also debug with ozone:
Hi, just wanted to add that I'm having this problem as well on windows 10.
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Thank you for reporting this and we are looking into this at the moment.
-Priyanka
Could you try to install the latest nrfutil device and run nrfutil device list ?
This should fix the issue.
-Priyanka