Hi Geoff, sorry to hear you are having trouble. It's probably galling to hear from someone whose setup worked 'out of the box'! Some suggestions:
What version of OS X are you using? Up to date? In the FTDI VCP driver package there is a version for OS X 10.3 and a separate version for 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 - is the right version installed? And up to date (mine: 2.2.16)? Does it show up in the System Profiler? Version of repsnapper (mine: r352M Darwin i386)? Have you tried the board with nothing or just one motor connected? What port speed/baud rate (mine: 19200)? Try different USB cable/USB port? Disconnect all other USB devices? Another thing might be to set up a new user account on your Mac, try from there in case something is conflicting with the port, eg printer software. Or get an external HD, clean install OS X and boot from it. Alternatively, download Oracle's free Virtualbox http://www.virtualbox.org/ and install Ubuntu or Windows, and control it from a virtual machine (a WinXP VM also works for me). Finally, could be a knackered board? Can you test it on any other (perhaps known working) config?
Sorry if this is repeating lots that you have already tried. Hope something in there helps!

Hi droftarts

I am running a MacBook Pro with the latest patches and latest FTDI drivers etc. I tried a whole variety of things trying to get it to work. Lost track of what

The machine works well with ReplicatorG, except for some comms. errors so the basic setup works and I can print.

The Repsnapper is the precompiled versions as I cannot get the latest code to compile. There are some differences between the libraries that get downloaded using macports compared to what the source version was built with. There is no documentation about what those versions should be.

So I can run the machine for now using ReplicatorG, but repsnapper would have been useful.

Cheers
Geoff

Here's another thing to try to get Repsnapper working:
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?218,7 ... #msg-70827

Thanks, I'll give both of those a try.

Cheers
Geoff

A great little app for quickly viewing/checking/scaling/rotating STL (and more limited abilities for gcode) files, and it's Mac only! http://www.pleasantsoftware.com/develop ... ndex.shtml
I hope they continue to add to it. A way of combining STL files to make trays of parts would be good, and a measuring tool perhaps. I'll suggest it to them, along with sending a small contribution for this worthwhile tool.

Hi. I've got a MacBook Pro running Lion, a Gen6 board, the latest FTDI VCP drivers and pronterface. I can see the driver in /dev/tty, lights are all on etc, but when I try to connect using pronterface, it just sits there "Connecting..." forever. Any ideas?