COM port not showing up in an app on Windows 11

I bought a laptop with Windows 11 Home, which I intend to use with my drone. The drone's flight controller connects to the laptop via USB and presents as a COM port in the drone's software (Mission Planner). The problem is that the COM port does not show up in the drone's software. Device Manager did not show Ports section, so I used Action/Add legacy hardware, I tried the standard/communications port, which shows a warning with Error Code 34 when installation is done. I then tried a few other options, but all fail to install. Powershell Get-PnpDevice shows the COM port with status Error and d

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