Yesterday, a friend posted a question here on my behalf asking for help with my trial expiring immediately upon install. He was able to get that resolved, but I am now attempting to connect my laser (Creality 5w) to my computer (HP Chromebook with Linux enabled), and the Lightburn software cannot seem to find my laser. I’ve attempted to have it find the laser with it connected via USB, by using the USB thumbdrive that came with the laser, and a number of different attempts to set it up manually. However, my computer skills rate no better than a 4/10, so this could be a ME issue.
Others seem to have been able to run Lightburn using Linux on a Chromebook, so I am hoping that is not the problem here. Can someone provide guidance?
Thanks, but I think this is where my ignorance becomes obvious.
Linux is installed correctly (computer engineer friend handled that yesterday). I am added as a user, but tty does not exist. The balance of the instructions take me no where, so I think the “tty” issue may be my holdup?
You’ve been so kind in helping, but while waiting for your next reply, I’m not quite sure what I did, but I think all is reloved now. I am now able to work with files, and am editing a picture I imported. Thanks so much for your kind help!
Guess I was wrong. Went through an initial project set up in Lightburn, and when I attempted to selct “frame” to see where the project would run on my piece, I get a dialog box saying “the laser does not appear to be connected to your computer” When I click on the device list, I see “GRBL CR-Laser Falcon” I think in the 6 hours I worked on this issue last night, I may have tried to selct that from a drop own list of possible devices.
What I don’t understand is that today, I was struggling to connect my laser to my computer, and Lightburn would not allow me to move forward. I ran some of the commands you reccomended, and was able to move forward, but with a device I had selected in error yesterday.
I want desperately to have this figured out by Friday when my grandson will be here. We do a project each year where he makes Christmas presents for everyone, and this is what he wants to do. I’ve got a good week, off and on, trying to get this ready to go, and it’s getting quite frustrating. I know 'm to blame, but my inadaquacies are getting the better of me.
Run this in Terminal. Please do so by copy and pasting from the Forum to the terminal: sudo adduser $USER dialout && sudo adduser $USER tty
Please return output showing the command the results
Run this in Terminal by copy and pasting. Please return output: ls -l /dev/*USB*
Take a full screenshot of LightBurn. Please make sure Laser window is in view when you do this.
[138770.902443] maitred: Received request to update VM resolv.conf
mk9750@penguin:~$ sudo adduser $USER dialout && sudo adduser $USER tty
The user mk9750' is already a member of dialout’.
The user mk9750' is already a member of tty’.
mk9750@penguin:~$
mk9750@penguin:~$ls -l /dev/USB
-bash: [138770.902443]: command not found
-bash: mk9750@penguin:~$: command not found
-bash: command substitution: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '' -bash: command substitution: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file -bash: command substitution: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ‘’
-bash: command substitution: line 5: syntax error: unexpected end of file
-bash: The: command not found
-bash: command substitution: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '' -bash: command substitution: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file -bash: command substitution: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ‘’
-bash: command substitution: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file
-bash: The: command not found
-bash: mk9750@penguin:~: command not found
mk9750@penguin:~$
Something didn’t work correctly with this and it’s not obvious why. Can you try adding one component of the command at a time to see where it breaks down? I’ll drop the -l this time.
ls
ls /dev
ls /dev/*USB*
Can you take an updated screenshot with the following adjustments:
