Hello, I have not used Arduino for a few years. When I launched the IDE of version 1.7?, it prompted me to install the latest version of the IDE. After installation, it mentioned that there were some upgrades so I chose to upgrade all. Then, a Windows Security window showed up asking "Would you like to install this device software? Name Arduino USB Driver Publisher: Arduino SA" Are we supposed to choose Install? If we choose Don't Install, will we still be able to run the IDE and interface with Arduino boards?
It is a good idea.
Arduino IDE is trying to install the Windows drivers for some of the popular Arduino boards. If you don't install the drivers and then try to use one of those particular boards, you will find that it doesn't produce the serial port that is needed in order to upload to the board because a driver is needed for that. So you would need to go find the driver and then install it via Windows Device Manager, etc.
Yes, the drivers aren't required for the functionality of the Arduino IDE installation itself.
Yes, but in certain cases it might mean that you will first need to install the necessary drivers, which would have otherwise been installed automatically if you had approved it.
It all depends on which Arduino boards you end up using. Some of them don't require the installation of special drivers. Others (e.g., some boards manufactured by 3rd parties) require you to install drivers separately anyway.
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Thanks. How about Mega 2560 Rev3, Uno Rev 3, Uno Rev 4 Wifi and Giga Wifi R1?
From a quick test on a Windows 11 machine, it looks like these will still work even without the drivers.
The driver is required in order to upload to the GIGA board. Note that this driver is not installed on the first run of Arduino IDE. Instead, the driver installation is offered when you use the Arduino IDE Boards Manager to install the "Arduino Mbed OS Giga Boards" platform that adds support for the GIGA R1 WiFi to Arduino IDE. So make sure to accept that driver installation offer, otherwise you will find that the upload fails with an error like this:
Cannot open DFU device 2341:0366 found on devnum 42 (LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND)
No DFU capable USB device available
Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 74
So make sure to at least confirm the driver installation offers when you install the "Arduino Mbed OS Giga Boards" platform. But really it is best to just install all the drivers. It is possible that under other conditions than the ones I had during my experiment (e.g., different Windows version), the other drivers might be mandatory as well.
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