Nano clone not working

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I am using a Mac M2 16GB and running Sonoma 14.7.2.
I bought a Nano clone off Amazon from a company called 'zetaton'.
The description told me to install the CH430 driver and select 'Old Bootloader'.
So I go ahead and install the CH430 driver according to the instructions, and it says that installation was successful.
I went ahead and plugged my Nano into my Mac, the Power LED comes on, and one that says L is blinking, but it does not appear in my list of boards in Arduino IDE.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks.

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Hi @1337n0vic30823.

I'm not sure I understood correctly what you mean by "list of boards". Please provide a more detailed description of what you mean by this in a reply on this forum thread to help us to understand it.

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Thanks for the swift response! I meant the dialog that is open in the Screenshot here.

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Thanks for the clarification. Please try this troubleshooting procedure and then report your results in a reply on this forum thread:

:exclamation: This procedure is not intended to solve the problem. The purpose is to gather more information.

  1. Unplug the USB cable of your Arduino board from your computer if it is currently connected.
  2. Click the Apple logo on the left side of the menu bar at the top of the screen ("Apple menu").
  3. Select "System Settings..." from the menu.
  4. A "System Settings" window will open. Click "General" in the menu on the left side of the window.
    ⓘ You may need to scroll the menu down to see "General".
  5. Click "About" on the panel at the right side of the "System Settings" window.
  6. The "About" panel will open. Click the "System Report..." button at the bottom of the panel.
  7. The "System Information" window will now open. Select Hardware > USB from the tree on the left side of the window.
  8. Take note of the contents of the "USB Device Tree" panel of the "System Information" window.
  9. Connect the Arduino board to your computer with a USB cable.
  10. Select File > Refresh Information from the menu bar.

Do you see any new device appear in the "USB Device Tree" panel of the "System Information" window after doing the last step?

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No change...

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OK, this tells us that the problem is either at the operating system or hardware level, rather than being a problem specific to the Arduino IDE application.

Make sure the USB cable is completely plugged into both the Arduino board and the PC.

If that doesn't help, you may have a damaged/defective or charge-only USB cable. Try a different cable.

Either of the above can result in the power connections being made (and thus LEDs lit on the board), but no data connections (and thus no port for the board).

After checking for problems with the USB cable, do you now see a device appear in the "USB Device Tree" panel of the "System Information" window?

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No, negative. Not appearing.

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I don't have any personal experience with this, but I seem to remember that some users have reported they were able to resolve problems like this by connecting the board to their Mac via a USB 2.0 hub instead of by connecting it directly to the USB 3.0 port on the Mac.

So if you have a USB hub on hand, give that a try and then check to see if the device now appears.

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I see. In the case that I am a brokie without USB hubs, do you have any advice? I think I might be able to borrow one from my friends though.

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Was that just for CH430, or others as well?

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Here's a thread where a windows 11 laptop would not see the CH340 port with usb 3.0.
A cheap usb 2 hub resolved the issue,

https://forum.arduino.cc/t/com-ports-arent-showing-up-win11/1347602/1

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That's excellent info. If the same goes for Linux, we can conclude it's the CH430, or possibly, the design.

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I guess so. Thanks guys!

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might be because of the architecture of the motherboards

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