I have a recent (Summer 2022 Adafruit esp8266 board. In aduino IDE v 2.2.1, this board is not shown in the board manager list.
Can you see any ESP8266 boards ?
If so, what happens if you select the Generic ESP8266 board ?
Hence moved to the dedicated IDE 2.x section of the forum 
Thanks for moving the query. Any ideas about why the board isn't showing?
You can answer @UKHeliBob's question in post #2
Did you install the board package that contains that specific board? I don't have the board so I'm probably not able to assist further.
No, I don't see any generic ESP8266 boards. The only Adafruit board I see is the Adafruit Circuit Playground, included in the Arduino AVR package.
If you cannot see any ESP8266 boards then you did not install the ESP8266 boards files
In IDE Preferences, do you have the following URL in the Additional boards manager URLs dialogue ?
https://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
If not, then add it and click OK on the Preferences window. Then go into the Board Manager, search for EPS8266 and add them
Right. I had json for ESP32 I was using before in preferences. Now I can see just the one ESP8266 (Community). That’s all fine. Thank you very much indeed for your help.
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