Hi, I have been successfully developing for the Uno board for several years on different Windows 7 computers. Just got the Sparkfun 8266 Thing Dev board but now stuck in Windows Driver Hell. I downloaded FTDI driver from this link: How to Install FTDI Drivers - SparkFun Learn Tried on 3 differen…

Arduino IDE - Port disabled (grayed out) for 8266

pert May 18, 2018, 8:59pm 2

Do you see something in Device Manager under "Other Devices" when you have the SparkFun Thing plugged in?

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