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Figure 3. Windows 7 requires installation of driver
There are two options to get a driver for the Device:
• you can download a driver from our web site:
http://www.yachtd.com/downloads/USBDRV.zip
•
or you can download the Virtual COM Port driver from the STMicroelectrionics web site
http://www.st.com
(type "STM32 Virtual COM Port Driver” in the search box on the site).
You should extract files from the ZIP archive to the disk folder.
Select “NMEA 2000 USB Gateway” and open the “Action \ Update Driver Software…” menu. Select
“Browse my computer for driver software” and “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”
in the opened window. Then select “Ports (COM & LPT)” as the device’s type (see Figure 4).