Is there a Windows driver for the nRF52840 USB CDC ACM?

[Roger Clark]

Hi

I'm trying to use the nRF52840 USB Serial UART device (aka USB CDC ACM) however I can't find a Windows driver for this device

The VID is 0x1915 and the PID is 0x520F

I've looked in all the development files listed for the nRF52840 PDK www.nordicsemi.com/.../nRF52840-Preview-DK

But I can't find a driver.

I've tried forcing a CDC ACM driver using libwdi, but although the board then appears as a serial device, I can't see any data from the board, so I presume that method is not valid as it may be a composite device and i need a more complex install method (or the official driver)

[Hung Bui]

Hi Roger,

I found that issue on my PC too.

I checked with the developer, it could be an issue with signing for the driver. We will look into that.

The work around is to select: "Browse my computer for driver software" -> "Let me pick from a list " -> "Ports (COM & LPT)" ->"Have Disk..."

After that you select the nordic_cdc_acm_example.inf file in the SDK folder. It should work after that.

[Roger Clark]

I tried RealTerm and it works a bit, but does not give the results I would expect.

I get about 100 or more NULL characters, followed by the expected test "Hello USB CDC FA demo: " etc

The only other terminal I have installed is part of the Arduino IDE, so I tried that, and I get similar results, except the NULL characters show up as spaces (or white space)

Hercules still doesn't work. www.hw-group.com/.../index_en.html

My W7 dev machine has a lot of other Serial drivers installed, so I guess there may be a clash, but it seems unlikely.

Are you running W7 or something newer ? (I know Windows 10 driver installation of USB CDC ACM is different from W7)