Step by Step FTDI’s FT232 installation guide.
What is FTDI’s FT232 ?
FTDI’s FT232 is popular USB to serial UART interfacing chip. Generally it is used to interface Microcontroller Development Boards (eg. 8051, AVR, Arduino etc) to computer. It can also be used to upload sketch in Arduino Boards.
Download Driver :
Steps to Install drivers:
Download driver from above given link and save at appropriate location.
Connect the FT232 based USB device to your computer. On connecting first time it will show following error.
Right click on computer icon select properties.
Click on device manager, remember your system type 32 or 64 bit.
Find ‘Device Manager >> Other Devices >> FT232R USB UART’
Right click on ‘FT232R USB UART’ and select on ‘Update Driver Software’
Select the location of Driver you downloaded, in our case its desktop.
Click on driver and select the system type 32 or 64 bit OS.
Follow these step:
Repeat the steps.Again select the drivers location and install the driver again.
Finally the FT232 drivers are installed
Now after complete installation you can find ‘Device Manager >> Ports(COM & LPT) >> USB Serial Port(COM3)’
This Number ‘COM3’ can be different for different computers which can be changed by Right Click and Advance setting option.
This number will be used by various software for communicating with the device.(eg Arduino IDE).
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