Thanks for posting. Hopefully this gets resolved.

On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 12:34:18 PM UTC-7, Heath Raftery wrote:
>
> To save others the angst, I just wanted to report that on the latest Mac 
> OS X (El Capitan 10.11) the Beaglebone Black is currently not usable via 
> the USB connection, except as a storage device. The alternative is to power 
> it somehow and connect via Ethernet.
>
> Normally there are two methods of console connection via USB: as a virtual 
> network device using HoRNDIS or as a virtual serial device using FTDI USB 
> Serial drivers. Both are thwarted by El Capitan because it enforces kext 
> signing, but for slightly different reasons:
>
>    - HoRNDIS simply hasn't been signed for the latest OS, so refuses to 
>    load. A preview version that is signed has become available (discussed 
>    here: 
>    
> http://beagleboard.org/Community/Forums?place=topic%2Fbeagleboard%2Fsp3_x1k5WP8%2Fdiscussion
>  
>    and over at the source: https://github.com/jwise/HoRNDIS/issues/42 ) 
>    but it does not appear to work with the Beaglebone.
>    - FTDI's drivers contain a long list of recognised chips, but the 
>    Beaglebone isn't one. Adding support is a simple matter of adding the 
>    vendor and product ID to the kext, but unfortunately doing so invalidates 
>    the signature and the kext will no longer load!
>
> If anyone discovers improvements on this state of affairs then please let 
> us know. I'll do the same.
>
> Regards,
> Heath
>
>

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