Arduino can not recognize the Freetronics etherten board:
In order for it to do so you need to download the driver file by following the link above and click on "driver files for windows" located at the bottom of the web page or just click here:
Then after that you need to extract the zip file and remember which folder you extracted it too.
Finally last step is to go to device manager find the "unknown device" (your etherten board) under the "other devices" section right click and click update driver software and browse for the zip file you extracted from the instructions above.
My question is why is the zip file extracted not visible when browsing for it after clicking "update driver software". Maybe the file given isn't correct, if anyone has the time to help me look into it that'd be great i have been stuck for quite a while now. Thanks.