Asus 14 inch ASUS Laptop incompatible with esp8366 dev ?e

I am running Arduino Ide 2.03 nightly build from today, Feb 20, 2023. My computer is an ASUS model M415DA-R3128. I have installed and reinstalled the IDE, but there are no USB ports showing in the Tools menu. All other USB devices I have tried work OK, and are seen in the device manager of Windows. In the device manager, if I plug in anything but the esp8266, the device is shown to be plugged in. But when I use that same USB cable with multiple physical esp8266 boards, none of them show up in the device manager.

I installed the IDE on my son's Dell laptop, and everything works as it should. I am questioning whether I should return the ASUS and get something better. My OS is Windows 11 Home 22H2,
installed 11/25 2022. Os build is 226211265

Not at all or in a different section with a yellow exclamation mark. Not behind a Windows machine at the moment to check where exactly.

This might be a driver problem; did you install the correct driver?

They don't show up at all. I have deleted the usb root3 device and reinstalled it. No help. I also tried too update the drivers but am told that they were at the best level already.

Could there be alternate drivers that will work with ASUS? And where would I go to find them?

Also, does anyone out there have Arduino 2.03 running on an ASUS Laptop?

I will take a SWAG and say try to turn off the WiFi in your laptop and see if that solves the problem.

gilshultz,
My Laptop doesn't have an ethernet port, and the IDE won't start without wifi. I tried disabling wifi whike the IDE was running, but that didn't change anything. Thanks for the suggestion.

Can you use a USB extension to get the ESP further from your laptop. The only other thing I can think of is get ab IDE version less then 2 but you files will need to be present on your laptop. I have not tried the new IDE but as I understand it must be connected to its home servers via the internet.

Thank you for your interest and suggestions. I have spent too much time dealing with this, and have decided to return the laptop and purchase something else. I really need to move forward with my project.

Is there a reason that you need to use the nightly build?

It's only the first time that you use IDE 2.0 that it requires an internet connection. If your experience is different, you have found a bug.

Once the IDE 2.0 is disconnected from the internet, you will not be able to install additional boards or libraries using the IDE. But you can always connect it again.

BlueTooth is something else that you can disable.

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