I am trying to work with an Arduino Nano on my laptop. When I plug it into my laptop through a USB mini to USB cable it does not appear in the board and port selector. I have downloaded FTDI drivers and updated them. I am on Arduino 2.3.2 on Windows 11. In device manager when I plug the nano in, it comes up under "libusb (WinUSB) devices." I have tried this with one other nano and gotten the same problem, and they are not having problems on my friend's laptop. I'm not sure what other steps I can take to get the nano to appear. Any help would be appreciated.
This sounds like you have not got an official Arduino but a knock off clone, and it required a CH340G chip driver on your laptop.
I have run the CH34x installer but it did not change anything.
Have you done a power down on your Laptop after you downloaded it?
A shut down and restart did not work either.
Maybe you should try the 1.8.19 IDE?
Hello,
if your Arduino Clone has a CH340X chip inside, you need the driver for that chip, others said it already. But be careful, the driver version 3.8 don't works, you need an older version, for example 3.5 or 3.7, but not newer than 3.7. Here is a download link for version 3.7 Download Version 3.7 Extract and use the setup.exe, it works for windows 11 too.
Oh i forgot something, windows update will install driver version 3.8 permanently, i have deactivated driver update by windows update.
Best Regards
Marko Petsch
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