What is a FTDI driver? Future Technology Devices International is commonly known as FTDI, a company specializing in USB technology. FTDI driver is a essential software that communicates between your computer system and FTDI hardware device. How to download or update FTDI driver? There are three ways to download or update your FTDI driver for Windows 10/8/7: Download FTDI driver manually; Update FTDI driver automatically. Critics felt that FTDI's actions were unethical, considering that users may be unaware that their chips were counterfeit, or that Windows had automatically installed a driver meant to disable them. On 22 October 2014, an emergency patch was made to the FTDI drivers in the Linux kernel to recognise devices with the '0000' ID. The FTDI Driver is included with Ubuntu/Debian. After plugging in the USB cable, you can find your device under /dev/ttyUSB0 (and ttyUSB1, ttyUSB2, etc, if you have more) or /dev/ttyACM0. Regular users on your ubuntu system may not have permission to write to the ttyUSB or ttyACM device.

Note: if you already have a working Arduino environment, you can safely skip this step.

Windows XP

These instructions are mainly for Windows XP see below other versions of Windows.

Step 1:

Just plug your Arduino into the USB port with the right cable. This balloon should appear.

Step 2:

Choose the option that you’ll select the driver yourself. We don’t want to wait for Windows to find it.

Step 3:

Click “Next”.

Step 4:

Click on “Browse”

Step 5:

Search for the drivers in the Ultimaker directory (or within the Arduino files) you’ve just extracted from the downloaded zip. When the OK button becomes active, press to continue!

Step 6:

Then, choose next.

Step 7:

Press “Continue Anyway”.

Step 8:

Press “Finish”.

That’s it!

Great work! Now you can start using your AmbiLED HD or your Arduino.

Windows 7

Click the start menu, and start typing “Device”. The following entries will show up:

After clicking on “Device Manager”, you will see this screen:

If you don’t see your FTDI USB device, please make sure it was plugged in.

Right-click the FTDI device and choose “Update driver software…”

Choose that you’ll browse for the driver yourself:

Find the folder of AmbiLED HD that you’ve downloaded:

Choose the folder “FTDI USB Drivers” and click OK, then click “Next” in the Wizard.

Choose “Install”. This should be the final step in the wizard. Close the wizard and wait for a balloon to appear at the bottom right. This balloon will tell you that the driver can be used.

Congratulations: That’s it!

Windows 8 and 8.1

No driver required for most of Win8 installations. If you have any problem with your FTDI com port, simply google it. FTDI is a well known USB to Serial hardware and have a lot of solution for problems.
For example if you have driver signature problem, solution here.

Mac OS X

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Make sure you’ve downloaded the DMG of ReplicatorG, it contains the driver you need. When you open it, you should see the following files:

Surprise… the ‘Drivers’ folder is where you’ll find the drivers. Open it to reveal the following contents:

Now, open the disk image with the drivers. The opened folder looks like this:

For Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6), open the second installation package, called “FTDIUSBSerialDriver_10_4_10_5_10_6.mpkg”.

Click Continue. You’ll see the change to this version of the driver.

Click Continue, again.

Click Install to the default. Enter your (administrative) account login to authorize the installation.

This should take a minute or two until it shows that you’re done!

This document also explains how to install the driver in a step-by-step process:

Linux

Ubuntu or other Debian based systems

The FTDI Driver is included with Ubuntu/Debian. After plugging in the USB cable, you can find your device under /dev/ttyUSB0 (and ttyUSB1, ttyUSB2, etc, if you have more) or /dev/ttyACM0.

Regular users on your ubuntu system may not have permission to write to the ttyUSB or ttyACM device. For example, Pronterface may complain “SerialException: could not open port /dev/ttyACM0″. In this case, change permissions for regular users like so:

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sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyACM0

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Raspberry PI

You are lucky, there is no extra driver for standard Pi packages. They are coming with FTDI drivers.