User's Manual

January 2010 - 16 -
Recovery Mode Host PC USB Driver
While each OS support pack may require its own host PC OS, the most common host OS for the
devkit is Windows. This section describes how to install the recovery mode driver onto a
Windows host PC. If an OS support pack requires a different host PC OS (such as Linux), that
pack’s documentation will describe how to install the recovery mode driver.
The documentation for the support pack will indicate the location of the PC recovery mode
driver to be used.
In the case of an OS that is flashed using Windows as the host PC OS (e.g. Windows CE 6.0), the
method is to install the driver using the “install from a specific location” option in the “New
Device Wizard” dialog box. This dialog box will pop up automatically (if required) when the
devkit is connected to the host PC while the devkit is in recovery mode. Note that the driver
can take a long time to install (in some cases, as long as 5 minutes). During the install process,
you may see the following dialog box (under XP):
Click “Continue Anyway” to install the driver. If the host PC OS being used to flash the device
is Windows, then to verify that the devkit is connected to the host PC, open the Device Manager
via:
Start Menu : Control Panel : System : Hardware : Device Manager
Verify that you see a device called