From the Windows mbed serial driver install instructions:
"If you have multiple mbed microcontrollers, but the serial port only appears for one of them:
- Make sure you run the installer for every mbed; windows loads the driver based on the serial number, so it needs to be run for each mbed you use"
Does it really have to check and lock to an individual serial number and not just the typical USB PID/VID code that is common for each board type?
Any idea on how to easily setup the serial virtual com port driver for large student labs in schools where large numbers of mbeds will be moved around to any of a large number of PCs. Right now I have 26 mbed modules and 200 PCs! We Ghost PC's disk images, but still have around 10 different PC image types to deal with in different lab rooms. So something like 260 driver installs would be needed plugging in all of the boards one at a time - a bit ugly!
We don't give students admin rights to install their own software in open PC labs. If you do that they will kill off most of the PCs in a week installing all kinds of strange stuff.
Also, it looks like each board uses another com port number. I also have some concerns there might be a limit on the number of virtual com ports in Windows - it will certainly add a lot of entries to the registry.
From the Windows mbed serial driver install instructions:
"If you have multiple mbed microcontrollers, but the serial port only appears for one of them:
Does it really have to check and lock to an individual serial number and not just the typical USB PID/VID code that is common for each board type?
Any idea on how to easily setup the serial virtual com port driver for large student labs in schools where large numbers of mbeds will be moved around to any of a large number of PCs. Right now I have 26 mbed modules and 200 PCs! We Ghost PC's disk images, but still have around 10 different PC image types to deal with in different lab rooms. So something like 260 driver installs would be needed plugging in all of the boards one at a time - a bit ugly!
We don't give students admin rights to install their own software in open PC labs. If you do that they will kill off most of the PCs in a week installing all kinds of strange stuff.
Also, it looks like each board uses another com port number. I also have some concerns there might be a limit on the number of virtual com ports in Windows - it will certainly add a lot of entries to the registry.