Installling a Driver on Linux Lite from a Zip File

[Robo_Pi]

I'm curious.  Did the Install Drivers link on the Welcome screen not offer what you needed?

I didn't think to try that.  I clicked on the box to not show the welcome screen every time I boot up, I'm not sure how to get it back.

In any case, this particular CH340 serial driver is supposed to be hard to come by according to everything I've read about it.  I used the link that came with the Arudino boards I have.  These are "After-market" Arduino boards so they don't use the standard interface.

In any case, it turned out to be really simple.  I just opened a terminal in the folder where the makefile file was and then typed in the following two commands:

#make

#make install

And apparently that did it.

By the way, it's working perfectly now.  I was able to upload some of my programs to my Arduino board and those programs run just fine.  So apparently I'm all set now.

Although if there is a better way to do this it would be nice to know.  I'm converting over a couple notebook computers to Linux Lite so I'll need to update the drivers on them too.  I'll give the update drivers a shot on one of those. 

I suppose I'll need to plug the Arduino board into the computer when I do that so it recognizes that something needs a driver?

The way I did it just now I didn't even have the Arduino board plugged in when installing the driver.

I'll give the Install Drivers a shot on my other Linux Notebook and if I remember I'll report back on whether or not that worked.