RE: VSCode nRF Connect extension doesn't find any devices if it was started without any usb devices present

Jonas Keller — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:36:35 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply!

Yeah we figured out the mirrored networking mode too, after a lot of troubleshooting 😅

RE: VSCode nRF Connect extension doesn't find any devices if it was started without any usb devices present

joh — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:29:39 GMT

Hi Jonas,

I was able to reproduce the issue you've described. I checked the source code, and I think your intuition is right. It's trying to kill a process which doesn't exist, gets an ESRCH exception (which is not handled) and thus crashes. I've let the relevant team know.

As for a workaround, a simple "CTRL+SHIFT+P -> Developer: Reload Window" seems to work for me. In addition to that, if you've not already configured WSL to run in mirrored networking mode, I'd recommend that as it seems to play much more nicely with usbipd. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/networking#mirrored-mode-networking

All of that being said, WSL is not officially supported so your experience may vary.