Arduino IDE port not recognized with Qduino mini dev board 13614

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Help! I’m new to this and feel a bit lost. I’ve download Arduino IDE 1.8.13 to my MacBook pro recently upgraded to Big Sur (OS X 11.0). I have successfully downloaded the driver for my Sparkfun Qduino from the board manager as well as the FTDI USB SerialDriver (v2.4.2).

The problem now is that under the tools/port menu there are no COM or /dev/cu.usbmodemXXXX selection available to communicate and download to the Qduino. Current port selections are only /dev/cu.URT1, URT2 and bluetooth. I have tested all of these and error messages all say ‘programmer is not responding’ which I’m assuming means I have no COM port access.

I have posed this question to Arduino IDE forums as well but have not received any response so far

Any suggestions on how to configure my IDE to get access to a functioning port? Any help is much appreciated.

TIA

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The new Mac update broke a lot of things, you might try the board on a PC just to make sure it works before trying to figure out getting it working on OSX.

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Thanks. I actually did try that yesterday and still am not having any luck.

I went through the full PC setup (from this link on the Sparkfun site - https://www.hackster.io/team-qtechknow/ … 0#comments When it was all done the only port available on the PC was a nonfunctional .COM port with the same error message I got on the Mac - ‘programmer is not responding’.

I’m running out of ideas. Any suggestions?

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Oh yes - one more thing. I actually have 2 brand new Qduinos from Sparkfun and both are having this issue. Probably not a board malfunction…

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  • - Does the COM port on your computer go away when you unplug the board?

  • - There's a switch on the board, is it in the ON position?
  • - Have you tried a different USB cable?
  • - If you go into device manager, does anything change when you plug in or unplug the board?