BBB Not Working With Mac OS10.11

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BBB Not Working With Mac OS10.11

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I upgraded my Mac from OS10.10 to OS10.11; now neither Safari nor Chrome nor Firefox can view the BBB's internal web page. I reloaded the two drivers on the beagle board.org/getting-started page, that didn't help. The BBB still works fine on another Mac running OS10.10.

Is this a known problem? I couldn't find any reference to it. Can you suggest what to do?

Thanks.

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Re: BBB Not Working With Mac OS10.11

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I'm not aware of any problems with El Capitan.

Check over in the BBB forums and see if the folks there know of anything: http://beagleboard.org/Community/Forums

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Re: BBB Not Working With Mac OS10.11

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It turns out that El Capitan blows away the HoRNDIS driver that connects the BBB to the Mac's USB port. The HoRNDIS community is working the problem in the context of Android devices not talking to El Capitan.

I found the following procedure that fixed the problem for me. Now my BBB is talking to my OS10.11.1 Mac:

HoRNDIS-rel8pre1.pkg works fine on my MBA (mid 2013) with 10.11.1. (official update from app store today)
device: Sony Z3(D6653), android 5.1.1 (23.4.A.1.232, the latest version since 2015/10/05).
I post this with it. Great thanks to @jwise !

All of my step:
1.install HoRNDIS-rel7
(from http://joshuawise.com/horndis#available_versions)
2.reboot OSX
3.terminal with
「sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/HoRNDIS.kext」 and
「sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/HoRNDIS.kext」.
4. install HoRNDIS-rel8pre1.pkg
(from http://nyus.joshuawise.com/HoRNDIS-rel8pre1.pkg)
5.reboot OSX

connect Z3 via USB and switch tether on.

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Re: BBB Not Working With Mac OS10.11

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Thanks for posting the follow-up.

We've seen some other problems with 10.11 messing up drivers.. apparently this is the release where the OS got serious about using signed drivers.

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Re: BBB Not Working With Mac OS10.11

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I had the same problem w/10.11. Try to 'screen tty.usbmodem*' where such tty shows up in 'ls /dev'.

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