CH341x ROM R-W programmers + MacOS compatibility

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  • TrumanHW
    TrumanHW
    • Jun 2021
    • 52
    • United States
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    CH341x ROM R-W programmers + MacOS compatibility

    Embarrassingly, excluding a customer (of my retail mac sales + repair store) who helped get my Retina to read the CH341, yet, I could never replicate it again. (he was a super smart guy).

    Others I've tried (to name but a sample which didn't work) ...

    • github.com/adrianmihalko/ch340g-ch34g-ch34x-mac-os-x-driver
    • https://tzapu.com/ch340-ch341-serial...-macos-sierra/
    • https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/docs/...uninstall.html
    • https://ftdichip.com/drivers/

    If others have already been successful I'll spare you the 'How-To' ..

    BUT, if useful ... I'd be happy to make a tutorial and also a video

    It is via CLI (Bash / iTerm2) and works excellent!

    Likewise, I found another CLI app which is superior to 'DIFF' & is a CLI-GUI.
    Brew install VBinDIFF for the CLI app to compare & contrasts BIN

    Thanks
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