Sparkfun Electronics USB Explorer Manual page 12

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There are two options we recommend: discovery or recovery.
Discovery
The Discover radio devices tool is an extension of "Add devices". Open
the discovery window by clicking the XBee/magnifying glass icon –
– in the top-left.
Once again you'll be prompted to select which communication port your
XBee is connected to. Double check that you've selected the correct one
(or even try multiple). The next window will present you with every, single
serial setting available, and a whole lot of checkboxes:
Most of the cases where your XBee is hiding it's because the baud rate
has been altered. A quick fix for this is to select all possible baud rates in
the discovery window, then click Finish. The discovery process works a lot
like the add process except it tests out every selection you make in this
window – that means it will take a little longer to finish.
Hopefully you've found an XBee that was just configured to talk at a weird
baud rate. If not you can select any of the other checkboxes as well, but it'll
make for a longer and longer discovery process. Click every checkbox and
you might be waiting upwards of an hour for your XBee to be discovered
(permutations!).
If you're not having any luck with discovery, the next step is recovery.