Hello

Today I finally got my Spartan 3E 1600 eval board from Digilent. The
problem is that that I can't make it work with the USB cable programmer. I
think it's something wrong with the drivers.
When connecting it to Windows XP SP3 it reports the VID/PID pair as 03FD /
000D. On the other hand, in the dmodusb.inf from the Adept drivers I found
4 pairs:
VID_1443 PID_0007
VID_1443 PID_0005
VID_1443 PID_0003
VID_1443 PID_0001
This means that it can't recognize my board and fails to install any
driver. Replacing any pair with 03FD/000D will allow the driver to be
installed but Adept still can't find my board and the green LED next to the
USB connector is not lit. I guess I should replace all pairs with something
meaningful, but I don't know exactly the values.
On the other hand, Windows 7 recognizes the board without any driver (as a
Xilinx USB cable), the green LED is lit but Adept can't see it ("No devices
connected"). The funny thing is that in Win7 the VID/PID pair is
03FD/0008.
Rather strange I might say... The board seems to be functional because when
in normal operating mode it writes text on the LCD and blinks LED's.

Does anybody have any advice?
(searching for the Ubuntu install CD..., let's see what VID/PID I get there
:P )

Thanks,
Fili

	   
					
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It's me again :)

I finally got it working, but not the way I expected. I've uninstalled all
drivers and installed Xilinx ISE Webpack. This one came with drivers that
have the correct VID/PID pairs and now I'm able to program the board via
Impact. Digilent's Adept still can't see the board.
I'm still interested if there's a way to program the board via Adept (I
don't want to install webpack on all computers) but at least I'm not
desperate anymore, as I have a way to do it.

Thanks... err.. for listening my problems :)
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