Ok I know this has been asked a ton of times but I am still having an issue. I have a Mac Air with M1 and able to connect to Xtool. I recently purchased a Mac Pro with Intel chip. I cannot connect to the Mac Pro. Steps I have followed based on all the research I have found:
Connect to Xtool through XCS (Cannot connect with USB but was able to with WiFi)
Install config file into Lightburn.
Installed CH34xVCP Driver
Verified in system report Serial port is showing up when plugged in
No other program is consuming the port. I do have a power cord plugged into one USB-C and Xtool in the other one.
Multiple restarts and LB will not detect device.
Attempted to setup manually using GRBL. Choose setup and it will not show in the available devices. (screenshot is all that is ever in the list).
The weirdest thing is it showed up yesterday and worked all day. Today I went to plug in and it will not detect anymore. I am at a loss.
It’s unusual for the device to show up in System Report but not be made available as a serial device in LightBurn.
Can you check to see if a serial port is created in Terminal?
ls -l /dev/*usb*
If a port is not being created then there’s a gap between device detection and serial port creation. This would normally be an issue with the driver. It may be that you’re having a driver conflict but let’s address one issue at a time.
Ok yes CH341 is what I was using. I followed this article and got to the kernel steps and the terminal would not find anything when I entered the command sudo kextload /Library/Extensions/usbserial.kext/
Ok after reading the GitHub it is the exact same instructions as the XTool site I posted. I did all of this. At the end of this it asks to query “ls /dev/tty* and this is what it currently returns
I have used it fine with my MacBook Air M1. That computer had no problem finding the device on first try of plugging it in. I am running Ventura 13.6 on both devices.
I have not checked for other existing drivers. I would need some instructions as to what I should do.
