diff --git a/arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/contributions/board-selection.ts b/arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/contributions/board-selection.ts
index 4e1e148fc..cd088f057 100644
--- a/arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/contributions/board-selection.ts
+++ b/arduino-ide-extension/src/browser/contributions/board-selection.ts
@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@ import { BoardsConfig } from '../boards/boards-config';
 import { MainMenuManager } from '../../common/main-menu-manager';
 import { BoardsListWidget } from '../boards/boards-list-widget';
 import { NotificationCenter } from '../notification-center';
-import {
-  AvailableBoard,
-  BoardsServiceProvider,
-} from '../boards/boards-service-provider';
+import { BoardsServiceProvider } from '../boards/boards-service-provider';
 import {
   ArduinoMenus,
   PlaceholderMenuNode,
@@ -23,6 +20,7 @@ import {
   InstalledBoardWithPackage,
   AvailablePorts,
   Port,
+  Board,
 } from '../../common/protocol';
 import { SketchContribution, Command, CommandRegistry } from './contribution';
 import { nls } from '@theia/core/lib/common';
@@ -84,7 +82,6 @@ export class BoardSelection extends SketchContribution {
         }
         // IDE2 must show the board info based on the selected port.
         // https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues/1489
-
         // IDE 1.x does not support network ports
         if (selectedPort.protocol === 'network') {
           this.messageService.info(
@@ -95,21 +92,19 @@ export class BoardSelection extends SketchContribution {
           );
           return;
         }
+        // serial protocol with one or many detected boards or available VID+PID properties from the port
+        const isNonNativeSerial = (port: Port, boards: Board[]) => {
+          return (
+            port.protocol === 'serial' &&
+            (boards.length ||
+              (port.properties?.['vid'] && port.properties?.['pid']))
+          );
+        };
         const selectedPortKey = Port.keyOf(selectedPort);
-        console.log('selectedportkey', JSON.stringify(selectedPortKey));
-        console.log(
-          'availableboards',
-          JSON.stringify(
-            this.boardsServiceProvider.availableBoards.filter(
-              AvailableBoard.hasPort
-            )
-          )
-        );
-
         const state = await this.boardsService.getState();
         const boardListOnSelectedPort = Object.entries(state).filter(
-          ([portKey, [, boards]]) =>
-            portKey === selectedPortKey && boards.length
+          ([portKey, [port, boards]]) =>
+            portKey === selectedPortKey && isNonNativeSerial(port, boards)
         );
         // IDE 1.x show this when cannot identify for example a ESP8266MOD although compile and upload works
         if (!boardListOnSelectedPort.length) {
@@ -123,7 +118,6 @@ export class BoardSelection extends SketchContribution {
         }
 
         const [, [port, boards]] = boardListOnSelectedPort[0];
-        boardListOnSelectedPort.length && boardListOnSelectedPort[0];
         if (boardListOnSelectedPort.length > 1 || boards.length > 1) {
           console.warn(
             `Detected more than one available boards on the selected port : ${JSON.stringify(
@@ -139,10 +133,17 @@ export class BoardSelection extends SketchContribution {
           !!s ? s : '(null)';
         const readProperty = (property: string, port: Port) =>
           falsyToNullString(port.properties?.[property]);
-        const BN = board.name;
+        const BN =
+          board?.name ??
+          nls.localize('arduino/board/unknownBoard', 'Unknown board');
         const VID = readProperty('vid', port);
         const PID = readProperty('pid', port);
-        const SN = readProperty('serialNumber', port);
+        const SN = board
+          ? readProperty('serialNumber', port)
+          : nls.localize(
+              'arduino/board/unknownBoardSerialNumber',
+              'Upload any sketch to obtain it.'
+            );
         const detail = `
 BN: ${BN}
 VID: ${VID}
diff --git a/i18n/en.json b/i18n/en.json
index 51681edd5..2cdfc1574 100644
--- a/i18n/en.json
+++ b/i18n/en.json
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
       "showAllPorts": "Show all ports",
       "succesfullyInstalledPlatform": "Successfully installed platform {0}:{1}",
       "succesfullyUninstalledPlatform": "Successfully uninstalled platform {0}:{1}",
-      "typeOfPorts": "{0} ports"
+      "typeOfPorts": "{0} ports",
+      "unknownBoard": "Unknown board",
+      "unknownBoardSerialNumber": "Upload any sketch to obtain it."
     },
     "boardsManager": "Boards Manager",
     "boardsType": {