[beagleboard] Re: Beagle bone not network/serial accessible over USB in Mac OS X El Capitan
you just saved me a lot of angst!! On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 2:34:18 PM UTC-5, 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 > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/fed36a66-7c7e-4ca2-a45c-172eb3adb37a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[beagleboard] Re: Beagle bone not network/serial accessible over USB in Mac OS X El Capitan
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 > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[beagleboard] Re: Beagle bone not network/serial accessible over USB in Mac OS X El Capitan
A positive update on the HoRNDIS front: the preview version (rel8pre1) has been confirmed to work on the latest OS X, 10.11.1. Still no word on FTDI. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
