I am having the same issue. LB loads and finds the laser (GRBL driver) but I get the ’
waiting for connection’ message in the console and it never connects.
No it isn’t new but the OS was recently reinstalled. I didn’t install Ortur drivers when I got it and it ran fine. I did an experiment with a fresh computer yesterday and I didn’t install Ortur drivers on it either. It worked right out of the box.
Click the ‘port list’ in the Laser window - it’s the drop-down list to the left of the box that says ‘GRBL’ (or whatever you named your laser). The box might say ‘(Choose)’ in it, or have the name of a port. If the wrong port is chosen you won’t get a connection.
LM2 works fine and works with lightburn. I can’t leave that desktop in my shop, I need it in my home office. I need to diagnose why lightburn will not work on my laptop.