‘The laser does not appear to be connected to your computer.’
It’s a laser script 6040 Ruida connected by USB to a Mac.
Device was set up manually.
Have tried the USB in each port on Mac. Also tried changing port selection from auto.
Still: the laser does not appear to be connected to your computer.
Make sure it is plugged in and any required drivers are installed.
Rick
(Technical Evangelist)
April 28, 2021, 5:38pm
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Ruida uses an FTDI device for the serial/USB connection, and the serial port driver that Apple ships with macOS interferes with the FTDI driver. You can watch how to fix the USB / Mac port thing here:
Ongoing macOS FTDI driver issues plague many users connecting the Arduino IDE to boards that use an FTDI chip. Since our boards use an FTDI chip for USB-to-serial communication, we have witnessed some of these issues when working with our boards...
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You can also connect via Ethernet, (a little more involved, but not a huge setup effort) which is very solid and does not have these issues.
Setting up a Ruida controller to connect via Ethernet isn’t hard, but it’s not quite as simple as just plugging it in. Follow these steps:
1) Get the IP Address of your computer:
For Windows:
Open a command prompt (click the Start button, type CMD, and hit enter).
Type IPCONFIG and press enter.
You’ll see something like this:
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The one labeled ‘IPv4 Address’ is the interesting part - this is the network address of your computer on your local network. The first 3 groups of numbers …
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