

With the original Arduino boards you might directly get the board name, like „Arduino Leonard“.

There should be an additional USB device listed.

Try this once without the Arduino board connected and once with the board connected. So go by „ Apple Logo top left“ > „ About This Mac“ > „ System Report“ > „ Hardware / USB„. You could with the chip on the backside of the Arduino board like this:įirst of all be sure that your board is still working and is detected at the USB Port. Official boards use FT232 some chinese boards use a CH340 Chipįirst have a look at the USB modules on your board and read if it says something like „CH34*“ or „FT232“.
#Arduino osx driver#
Only /dev/cu.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port was listed.Īfter some days of random Google researches and several driver installations without fixing the problem, I finally found out that there are two main USB to UART converter chips used which need different drivers. I did so on my OSX 10.11 ( El Capitan ), but the Nano module didn’t show up on the ports list. If connected via USB you normally have to make the USB connection first, start the Arduino IDE and finally have to select the model and mainly the port over the Tools menu. When I finally found some time and wanted to start programming with the Nano modules I couldn’t manage to connect them to the Arduino IDE. So I bought some Arduino Nano ( ) over Amazon lately and was amazed that I got 5 boards for only ~15 EUR by some chinese retailer.
