ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:56 pm #8353

I cant seem to find the appropriate drivers for the FTDI..
i have the ftdi232 but its drivers doesnt seem to install properly

suggestions?

huuuummm

FTDI has good support. But I know there was problems with some chinese clones being blown by some update... Which OS are you using?

win 8.1

But i somehow got it to recognize the FTDI, but nothing happens when i connect the esp...

my wiring now is:
ESP - FTDI
GND - GND
VCC - 3.3V
CH_PD - 3.3V
RX - TX
TX - RX

why is it so difficult...

- Tue Jan 27, 2015 3:14 pm #8362 your wiring is not complete.

you need to put RST, GPIO0 and GPIO2 HIGH. conect them to VCC.

- Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:03 pm #8364 Which terminal are you using? Try termite - it works fine here.

Also you need to make sure you are using cr and nl with your terminal.

- Wed Jan 28, 2015 5:54 am #8395

your wiring is not complete.

you need to put RST, GPIO0 and GPIO2 HIGH. conect them to VCC.

Ok, ill try it
But from what i read connecting the gpio pins puts the board on update firmware mode, doesnt it?