Just a quick update, i haven't made any new progress on getting the board to work with the Mac, but I have successfully pushed the bootloader and Marlin using the Arduino IDE from a PC after installing the Windows driver provided by Microchip. So that means a couple of things - most importantly, our board lives! But also, that pretty much clinches the fact that my issues connecting from my Macbby jgunn - Next Wave Electronics Working Group
Well, I haven't given up. I'll grab the board tonight and bring it home where I can plug it into a couple of other Macs and see what happens. Also, one of the forum links you provided above is a discussion forum on the chip manufacturer's website; if I can't take this any further on my own, I'll start a thread over there and see if I can get some official support. It also might be that there'sby jgunn - Next Wave Electronics Working Group
Hi Traumflug, I'm running 10.6.8. I found that first article, though I couldn't get very far along that same path because the problem I'm having seems to happen before the device is created in /dev/xxxx. When I get back to the shop later, I'll try running the USB Probe app referenced in the forum post and see if that provides any useful data. Maybe I should try plugging it into a different maby jgunn - Next Wave Electronics Working Group
So, I've completed construction of a Gen7 1.5 board as part of a project at my local makerspace to build a big new printer. It's a MendelMax variant that's been overgrown to have a 12" x 12" x12" build volume in case anyone is curious. Anyway, the board powers up, I got the naked Atmega1284P programmed with a bootloader and then the test firmware via the ICSP header, so that's all groovy. I thby jgunn - Next Wave Electronics Working Group