Windows driver issue with Arduino Due R3-E board #2686
Description
I recently purchased a bunch of Arduino Due boards whose programming ports are not recognized by the Windows 7 Arduino driver that is installed with 1.5.8 or 1.6.0.
The issue is that the USB vendor ID changed from 2341 (Arduino SA) to 2a03 (unknown). The visible difference in the boards is that they are labeled in the back as from Arduino.org instead of www.arduino.cc and the board model is R3-E instead of R3. (Also they have silkscreened pin names on the headers). I assume these are legitimate boards, since I got them from a major distributor (Mouser? I would have to check with purchasing to be sure).
The native port is unchanged and works fine, but I need the programming port so I can reset the Arduino.
So, I suppose I could reflash the 16u2 chip with a version of software that has the 2341 vendor ID, but I would rather not do that.
Currently I am exploring the possibility that I can provide a new arduino.inf file to make Windows 7 recognize the new vendor ID, but I wonder if anyone else has run into this problem or knows the pedigree of the R3-E board. (I have other information about the problem but I haven't organized my observations yet in a way that I can report accurately.)
Peter Olson