Unverified Commit d490499c authored by Earle F. Philhower, III's avatar Earle F. Philhower, III Committed by GitHub

Add note about Win7 driver installation (#102)

Fixes #96
parent 9e0e266b
......@@ -67,6 +67,19 @@ Them hit the upload button and your sketch should upload and run.
In some cases the Pico will encounter a hard hang and its USB port will not respond to the auto-reset request. Should this happen, just
follow the initial procedure of holding the BOOTSEL button down while plugging in the Pico to enter the ROM bootloader.
Windows 7 Driver Notes
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Windows 10, Linux, and Mac will all support the Pico CDC/ACM USB serial port
automatically. However, Windows 7 may not include the proper driver and
therefore no detect the Pico for automatic uploads or the Serial Monitor.
For Windows 7, if this occurs, you can use `Zadig <https://zadig.akeo.ie/>`
to install the appropriate driver. Select the USB ID of ``2E8A`` and use
the ``USB Serial (CDC)`` driver.
.. image:: images/install_driver_old_win.png
Uploading Filesystem Images
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The onboard flash filesystem for the Pico, LittleFS, lets you upload a filesystem image from the sketch directory for your sketch to use. Download the needed plugin from
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