I've been having nothing but troubles here.
I first did a basic load of the arduino app and asked it to load the drivers. I got a usb device not recognized but moved past the error.
On using the app for the first time, I didn't see my port connected.
Looking at the drivers in my devices showed an error so I tried to manually install the driver from the device manager. I get the following error when using the "have disk" option and pointing to the drivers/arduino.ini file
- The folder you specified doesn't contain a compatible software driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64 based systems.
Further googling shows there are problems with the certification of the disk and gives a workaround. I noted that the first time I tried this, the device showed up twice in the device manager; once under usb devices - unknown and a second time under other - unknown. This is important for later. The workaround says to manually update the driver for the other-unknown and say 'choose from loaded drivers or something' and click the "ports" driver type and select the arduino.
I tried this and it kind of tried to work but had some failures.
Here is where I am now screwed... Retrying this, I only see the unknown device in the usb-unknown section. NOT in the other-unknown. Manually trying to install it via the workaround doesn't let me change to a 'port' type install. It seems the device is permanently set to a 'usb type' and the arduino company doesn't show in the list.
I' totally stuck.
Anyone have ideas to get past this?