Installing Smoothie Drivers (and knowing whether you need to)
The Cohesion3D Boards come with Smoothie firmware pre-installed.
If you have Windows, but not Windows 10, you need Smoothie drivers.
Operating System | Need Drivers? |
---|---|
Windows 8 and Earlier | Yes, use smoothieware-usb-driver-v1.1.exe |
Windows 8.1 | Yes, but may need to manual install driver, see link below. |
Windows 10 | No |
Mac OS | No |
Linux | No |
Please see here: http://smoothieware.org/windows-drivers for the full page including the downloads for manual driver install.
For all Windows installations, you may need to Disable Driver Signature Enforcement by following this guide: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/disabling-driver-signature-on-windows-8/all