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Appendix F - USB Serial Driver Installation
Appendix F - USB Serial Driver Installation
This instruction describes the procedure of installing the USB serial driver on
Windows®.
Requirements
• M.1K2
• USB cable (Type B)
• Windows® PC (supported operating systems: XP, Vista,7, 8, 10)
• USB serial driver from M.1K2 product page at www.directout.eu
Driver details
This driver (m1k2-black-usb.inf) provides access to the virtual COM port. The driver
works with the M.1K2 - black panel version only.
Installation
1. Unpack the driver fi les into a temp directory.
2. Connect the USB port of M.1K2 to an USB port of your computer.
3. Switch the device on.
When connecting the device Windows will try to download driver fi les from the
Windows Update server. As the DirectOut drivers are not distributed through the
Microsoft Update Service this attempt will fail.
4. Open the ‘Device Manager’. It will show an unknown device called ‘M.1K2’.