Comments on: Using the Bus Pirate v2go on Mac

By: Kunal

Kunal — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:44:53 +0000

It is working. Worked like a charm

Thanks.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:18:39 +0000

Hi Bret,

It looks like we found the issue with ZTerm and some later firmwares. Some people were having an issue with ZTerm because the default profile sent a modem initialization string (AT…something) that accidentally put the Bus Pirate in binary mode.

This is something to check if you’re using ZTerm and you can’t see anything in the terminal, your MODE LED will probably also be on when this happens.

By: brettinman

brettinman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:57:13 +0000

Thanks Ian, post updated. I still haven’t gotten around to updating my firmware so I hadn’t run into that yet.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:17:17 +0000

The XON/XOFF setting isn’t required in recent firmwares (2.2+) and might be causing a problem with the latest (v2.5+) and ZTerm.

By: brettinman

brettinman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:25:06 +0000

Thanks for the info, David! Post has been updated to reflect this.

By: David Findlay

David Findlay — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:28:11 +0000

FWIW, with screen you can pass the baud rate as the second argument, so:

screen /dev/ttyWHATEVER 115200

This worked for me on my Mac with my Bus Pirate.

By: Bus Pirate: Connecting with MAC, OSX « Dangerous Prototypes

Bus Pirate: Connecting with MAC, OSX « Dangerous Prototypes — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:02:30 +0000

[...] Brettinman got a Bus Pirate from Hack a Day’s preorder, but he couldn’t get it working with the default MAC serial terminal. He used ZTerm and documented how to use the Bus Pirate with a MAC. [...]

By: ereet st

ereet st — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:24:59 +0000

Updating Bus Pirate firmware in OS X…

So a while ago hack-a-day introduced a really awesome DIY project called The Bus Pirate which is small device for interfacing with all sorts of different chips and devices using a host of protocols. The really slick part is that despite the small size…

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:22:55 +0000

Thanks for writing this, we need more MAC references for the Bus Pirate. I’ll list it as a resource on the Bus Pirate Google Code page.

By: brettinman

brettinman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:55:21 +0000

I prefer English. You can also reach me by email.