Off to an inauspicious start with the Beaglebone Blue. The network drivers won’t install on MacOS Catalina. Apparently the packages, HoRNDIS and EnergiaFTDIDrivers (no idea what they do… ELI5?) do shady shit at system level so Catalina sez no.
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Try this. HoRNDIS seems for USB tethering. FTDI is the driver for USB to serial converter
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thanks will try eventually though managed to get up and running on wife's computer... the FTDI also does not install, so I'll need a workaround for that too I assume. Sounds like HoRNDS is the OS level thing and FTDI driver is for the specific chip that handles the tethering?
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Kind of. FTDI is an ASIC that converts USB protocol to UART serial
But yeah embedded systems work with Macs are a hassle
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I'm also setting up an RPi4 as a basic linux computer and might end up using that for basic interfacing and command

