"No device found" on FlashGBX: remember to install the CH340 driver!

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Just spent 3 hours trying to figure why it wouldn't be recognized by either my main computer, a VM with USB passthrough, or an old laptop I did a fresh install of an older Win10 build just for testing the dumper.

Turns out I was missing the driver for it. =.=

With that in mind, besides warning of that, I'd also add that if you got a throwaway computer you can stick Windows on a computer with Windows on, that may be the best option, as the setup version of FlashGBX for Windows comes with the needed driver.

Also rambling a bit, but Windows' device manager makes more sense than Linux Mint's, or at least it shows when an "unknown device" is connected or unplugged. That helped quite a lot.

pastermil 1 point a month ago

CH340 needs Linux driver set up manually?

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Auster 1 point a month ago

Iirc the driver's installer for Linux is available on the manufacturer's site.

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pastermil 1 point a month ago

Swear I thought it's already in the system packages.

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Auster 1 point a month ago

Gonna try to investigate further today, if things aren't too busy. Any suggestions on distros in case I need to distro hop to test? Was testing on Linux Mint 22.3 Xfce.

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pastermil 1 point a month ago

I think Mint is good. I would probably upgrade to v23. Aside from that, you could probably try a LiveUSB of Fedora.

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