Software Requirements; Driver For The Usb < - > Serial Cable; Esp Flash Download Tools - OLIMEX ESP8266 Series Upgrade Manual

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2.2 Software requirements

2.2 Software requirements
2.2.1 Driver for the USB < - > serial cable
2.2.1 Driver for the USB < - > serial cable
Contact the supplier of your USB to serial adapter cable for such drivers. After the drivers are installed
make sure the cable is properly recognized by the operating system.
A properly installed serial cable should be listed as a COM port by the operating system.
For example, under Windows, in "Windows Device Manager" a properly installed cable gets listed like
this:

2.2.2 ESP FLASH DOWNLOAD TOOLS

2.2.2 ESP FLASH DOWNLOAD TOOLS
This is the official tool for updating the firmware of ESP8266EX. The tool is maintained by "Espressif
Systems".
Download and extract the latest version of "FLASH DOWNLOAD TOOLS" from the official Espressif web-
site. The archive is usually located under "Tools" sub-group at the web-page with the ESP8266EX
resources. By the time of writing this document, the page with resources can be found at:
http://espressif.com/en/products/hardware/esp8266ex/resources
We used "FLASH DOWNLOAD TOOLS v2.3" during the preparation of this document. If you want to have
the exact same behavior as us, use "FLASH DOWNLOAD TOOLS v2.3". You can download them from here:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/_resources/flash_download_tools_v2.4_150924.rar
There are a lot of tools that can accomplish the same (including tools which work fine under Linux OS and Mac OS). Feel free
to use other tools if you wish. However, this guide aims to assist beginners with ESP8266EX and it focuses only on the "FLASH
DOWNLOAD TOOLS" released by "Espressif Systems".
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