Redboard Qwik Apple M1 Mac Connection

Development Boards Artemis
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Hi,

I’m brand new to Sparkfun’s Redboard, but not Arduino. I have followed all the instructions on how to set this up and expected it to just find the FTDI chip on it without any issues. I have downloaded and installed the FTDI drivers linked in the page https://learn.sparkfun.com/ftdiDriversMac

I’m running an M1 MacBook Pro with Ventura 13.2.1 and it won’t show up as a serial port when I plug it in. I’m assuming that these things don’t work with M1 Macs yet. Is this correct?

Many thanks in advance. Sorry if this isn’t in the right section. I don’t know what Artemis is

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Not sure which redboard you have, most don’t use a ftdi chip. It’s likely you need ch340 drivers instead, those can be found below.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/ho … 40-drivers

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Thank you so much for your reply. I purchased this Redboard Qwiic Arduino Uno replica. I will try your driver link and get back to you.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15123

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Yep, that one definitely has a CH340.

Load the CH340 driver and you should be good to go!

Just in case the driver in sparkfun’s links don’t work, this might be helpful too:

https://arduino.stackexchange.com/quest … 4x-devices

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Thanks YellowDog,

I have done some searching on M1 Macs and the CH340 drivers to find a repo with an installer for the drivers. It’s still not working though.

I’ll keep on hammering away at it though and post when I know what the hell has gone wrong. I just find it weird to be the only one with this issue. Surely every M1 Mac owner has this issue.

https://arduino.stackexchange.com/quest … 4x-devices

Thanks again <3

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HAHAHAHA turns out we found the same link.

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OK… Anybody who has this problem please download the drivers from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XY9kOZ … sp=sharing

The drivers from github didn’t work for me. They didn’t install any kext extensions. Best of luck out there, and keep nerding