IDE 2.3.2 Serial-discovery Mac (M3 Chip) Sonoma 14.5 not responding to USB C Firebeetle ESP32-E - Solved

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I have a variety of ESP32 & ESP822 Firebeetle boards with micro usb connectors that are discovered correctly . The Mac only has USB C connectors.
The Firebeetle ESP32-E board with USB C connector is not seen by serial-discovery , though the MacOS detects and lists the serial connection correctly.

I have used the technique of running serial-discovery directly . version 1.4.1
In SYNC mode it correctly detects the insertion and removal of all the boards except the ESP32-E

The Mac detects this board's USB serial as:
USB 3.1 Bus:

Host Controller Driver: AppleT8122USBXHCI

USB Serial:

Product ID: 0x7522
Vendor ID: 0x1a86
Version: 2.64
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/s
Location ID: 0x01100000 / 1
Current Available (mA): 500
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

Many Thanks

Andy

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This was a missing driver , the intel Macs include the CH340 drivers and it looks like Sonoma on M3 doesn't.

The only difference in the USB Serial recognition entry of Current Required.

The functional entry is included below for completeness.

USB Serial:

Product ID: 0x7522
Vendor ID: 0x1a86
Version: 2.64
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/s
Location ID: 0x01100000 / 1
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 98
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

Still the good news is that I have the go build environment loaded now!

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