Windows XP device manager showing the Pololu Orangutan
SVP.
Windows 8 device manager showing the Pololu Orangutan SVP.
The COM ports in the Device Manager might actually be named “USB Serial Device” instead of having
a descriptive name as shown in the screenshots above. This can happen if you are using Windows
10 or later and you plugged the Orangutan SVP into your computer before installing our drivers for
it. In that case, Windows will set up your programmer using usbser.inf, a driver from Microsoft that
ships with Windows 10 and later, and it will display “USB Serial Device” as the name for each port.
The ports will be usable, but it will be hard to distinguish the ports from each other because of the
generic name shown in the Device Manager. We recommend fixing the names in the Device Manager
by right-clicking on each “USB Serial Device” entry, selecting “Update Driver Software…”, and then
selecting “Search automatically for updated driver software”. Windows should find the drivers you
already installed, which contain the correct name for the port.
Some software will not allow connection to higher COM port numbers. In particular, AVR Studio and
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