Bus Pirate No Longer Working Under Chrome OS

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At some point in the last month or two, one of the updates seems to have inadvertently broken support for using the BP5 under the Linux VM in Chrome OS.

I’ve got two BP5s, the one that still has the stock factory firmware (0.1.0) works as expected under the VM, it shows up as /dev/ttyACM0 and I can use tio to talk to it just like on my Linux desktop.

But the other BP5 running the latest firmware won’t connect. The VM still sees the /dev/ttyACM0 device, and tio even shows that it’s connected, but the device doesn’t respond and nothing shows in the terminal.

I’m assuming this is some side-effect of the changes that have been made recently to how the BP5 works under Linux. Was thinking that my next step would be to try and ascertain exactly which firmware revision stops working to track down the change that’s causing the issue.

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COM port numbering seems to change sometimes. Not sure of the cause. Can you try connecting to /dev/ttyACM1, and press enter a couple times?

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Please let us know where it breaks if possible. I am having some “dead starts” on windows as well.

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