Work around language incompatibilities when installing beaglebone FTDI drivers on non plain vanilla US English Win32 speaking hosts

Hello,

The issue I found was that, when I tried to install the bone drivers made by
FTDI as it appears, the dpinst.exe (program running the install process of
the drivers) rejected the install quoting that my computer did not have
proper system language for installing this package.
For my case, the system computer language is French and cannot be changed
easily (this is not the language for the end user).

What I did was:
Visit the URL
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff544784(v=vs.85).a
spx and quote the language code adequate for my language/country combi.

Copy the two exe files within the Drivers\Windows directory to a safe place
on my local drive.
Use a file desarchiver (I personally used AltZip but I belive that 7zip
itself is a freeware to extract the content of the exe files in a relevant
directory on my local drive too.
Edit The dpinst.xml file and change the language_code (originally 0x0409) to
the figure quoted from the visit to the URL above.

Double click on the dpinst.exe icon. You would then get a mix of English
text and localized text from then in the dialog window popup.
But at the end, the drivers seem to be installed correctly on my system.

HTHATS,
Hope This Helps As they Say,
Best regards,
Benoît

What do you mean by "quote the language code adequate" ?

I was able to install the drivers as you indicate.
But, each time I plug the USB cable, it always search for drivers and
I'm unable to finish the installation correctly.
I've tried to indicate the absolute path on my PC to find the drivers,
and the result is the same.

Thanks for your help.

Vincent

For Italian the workaround requires this change:

  <language code="0x410">

for other country code see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff544784(v=vs.85).aspx

Regards

Rino

Easier way to fix this is to open up command line (as administrator),
unzip/unrar archive so you see dpinst.exe and then run dpinst.exe /el

Easier way to fix this is to open up command line (as administrator),
unzip/unrar archive so you see dpinst.exe and then run dpinst.exe /el

Is there a patch I can apply to the archive to make this automatic?

I don't know about a patch but it's easy to install those drivers by
following the instructions I gave. Worked for me.