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 thought there was a problem with the MCP2200 chip, though, because I couldn't get the board to show up in the OS when I plugged it into my Mac via USB (Macbook Pro i5, OS X 10.6.something). I troubleshot the thing from stem to stern and pulled my hair out for a while until I plugged it into a PC and the board showed right up. I then did some digging and found these errors in the dmesg log:
0 0 AppleUSBCDCACMControl: start - Failed to find the CDC driver
0 1 AppleUSBCDCACMData: start - Find CDC driver for data interface failed
So it seems my Mac isn't recognizing the device because of a driver issue. That actually made me feel a lot better. I checked the downloads area at microchip.com and they only have a driver for Windows; supposedly Mac and Linux will work with the CDC ACM driver? Except not in my case, at least.
Is anyone else using the Gen7 1.5 board with a Mac? Any issues getting it recognized by the OS? I can certainly use a PC in the short term but since this is going to be a shared printer at the Makerspace I'd rather have it work with anyone's platform of choice. I realize this issue is a bit more of an OS/driver problem than a Gen7 dev question but I since I've already dug all over the internet for information on this sort of problem, I don't want to overlook the possibility that someone here has already run into this and solved it.
Thanks,
Jeff
P.S. - Traumflug - thank you for all of your work. The Gen7 board is really something.
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 thought there was a problem with the MCP2200 chip, though, because I couldn't get the board to show up in the OS when I plugged it into my Mac via USB (Macbook Pro i5, OS X 10.6.something). I troubleshot the thing from stem to stern and pulled my hair out for a while until I plugged it into a PC and the board showed right up. I then did some digging and found these errors in the dmesg log:
0 0 AppleUSBCDCACMControl: start - Failed to find the CDC driver
0 1 AppleUSBCDCACMData: start - Find CDC driver for data interface failed
So it seems my Mac isn't recognizing the device because of a driver issue. That actually made me feel a lot better. I checked the downloads area at microchip.com and they only have a driver for Windows; supposedly Mac and Linux will work with the CDC ACM driver? Except not in my case, at least.
Is anyone else using the Gen7 1.5 board with a Mac? Any issues getting it recognized by the OS? I can certainly use a PC in the short term but since this is going to be a shared printer at the Makerspace I'd rather have it work with anyone's platform of choice. I realize this issue is a bit more of an OS/driver problem than a Gen7 dev question but I since I've already dug all over the internet for information on this sort of problem, I don't want to overlook the possibility that someone here has already run into this and solved it.
Thanks,
Jeff
P.S. - Traumflug - thank you for all of your work. The Gen7 board is really something.