Bus Pirate v3.6a on macOS 10.14 does not work

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I try to get the Sparkfun Bus Pirate v3.6a to work on a MacBook Pro with macOS 10.14, but I don’t get it to work. When I connect the USB cable, no /dev/tty… or /dev/cu… device appears. I have installed the latest driver from https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm, macOS 10.9 or higher, 2020-08-13, version 2.4.4, but that did not help.

The FDTI chip has printed:

FTDI
1917-C
F52373G1
FT232RL

The page http://dangerousprototypes.com/blog/200 … h-mac-osx/ is from 2009 and not very helpful.

What should I do to make it work?

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As an add on to my previous post… I tried it on a Linux machine. On that machine, a /dev/ttyUSB0 device appears and I can connect with it using screen.

I still hope that I get the Bus Pirate to work on macOS.

Bus Pirate v3b

Firmware v5.10 (r559) Bootloader v4.4

DEVID:0x0447 REVID:0x3046 (24FJ64GA002 B8)

http://dangerousprototypes.com

Blake

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Unfortunately Apple broke a whole bunch of USB stuff when they rolled out Big Sur.

Until FTDI can develop a driver for Big Sur it sadly won’t work.

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I managed to solve it. macOS Big Sur was not the problem, I still work with 10.14 Mojave and 10.15 Catalina. It turns out that the Bus Pirate does not work on a Macbook 2014, but does work on a Macbook 2017. I don’t know why, but all is good now for me.