nRF52 Dongle as sniffer

[Malcolm]

I have programed the nRF52 dongle as sniffer using the hex file from the 3.1 release using nRF Connect programmer. When I plug dongle I expect a COM port to be created in Windows, but this is not the case. Consequently it is not being detected in Wireshark.

[Malcolm]

I cannot recall or confirm whether the dongle installed automatically in Win 7 when I started using the dongle with nRF Connect. However the INF file that is distributed with the SDK is missing the necessary line to install the dongle as sniffer.

When the sniffer is installed on PCA10040 the driver is installed automatically. The issue is that the PID is changed from the settings in the INF file. You need to check the INF file in WIN 10 or later versions of SDK has the correct line.

[Vidar Berg]

The nRF52 DK is interfaced via the J-link VCOM, not native USB as on the 52840 dongle, so it is not the same.

The INF file was not included for this release as it is being disitrbuted by Windows, except for on windows 7, which we don't officially support. But I'll ask the team if we can include it in future releases.