Solo Hacker Not Found with WSL

[yasmineantille]

I recently purchased the Solo Hacker (USB C) and am facing issues while following the getting-started docs. I've tried looking into older issues with similar problems here in the repo, but none of the suggested solutions have helped me completely solve this.

So my question is which (additional) steps are necessary to recognize the device with the solo cli using wsl? (Or is there a way to make the firmware on ubuntu, copying over the binaries to windows and then deploying the code to the device from there as I'm able to run commands to the device there?)

I am working on a Windows machine, so I have WSL (version 2) installed with Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, where I am trying to generate and deploy new code to the device. I attach the usb device with usbipd wsl attach --busid <busid> and make sure with lsusb on ubuntu that it is recognized:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0483:a2ca STMicroelectronics Solo 4.1.5

However now, running the command solo1 key version or solo1 key update on ubuntu I get the message:

No Solo found.
If you are on Linux, are your udev rules up to date?

Running solo1 ls on ubuntu gives me the following:

:: Solos

Running the same command on Windows powershell with admin rights when the device is not attached to ubuntu:

:: Solos
204C3790324B: Solo 4.1.5

(I have updated the key's firmware on Windows in powershell with admin rights, so at least that step has worked, but now I'd like to successfully deploy the firmware from the docs to change the LED colors).

I set up the udev rules according to solokeys/solo1-cli#92 (comment) and tried finding the USB device's name by

1. Running ls -1 /dev > ~/before.txt,
2. plugging the solo key in and attaching it to ubuntu, and then
3. running ls -1 /dev > ~/after.txt again and comparing the difference with diff ~/before.txt ~/after.txt but no diff is returned.

Edit:
Here's the output of dmesg (omitting the serial) so I feel like it's properly attached (?):

[ 5874.500496] usb 1-1: SetAddress Request (5) to port 0
[ 5874.544750] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0483, idProduct=a2ca, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 5874.548549] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 5874.549357] usb 1-1: Product: Solo 4.1.5
[ 5874.549710] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: SoloKeys

[FaFre]

@yasmineantille Did you find a solution for this?

[yasmineantille]

@yasmineantille Did you find a solution for this?

Sadly not. I opted to change to a bootable ubuntu system instead of using WSL (or Windows in general).

[numberisnan]

Sadly not. I opted to change to a bootable ubuntu system instead of using WSL (or Windows in general).

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