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Since one year I'm using a MacBook Pro 13 upgraded to Catalina in October. I use the Mac to program same embedded module via RS232 (different adapters with different chips, e.g. FTDI) and it is still working.

Last Monday I changed to a new MacBookPro 16. I used a backup and all worked proper, but I can't connect to any USB-to-Serial adapters. I got the same

error [16] could not open port /dev/tty.usbserial-xxxx: Resource busy ...

I tried to reinstall all corresponding drivers, but without success.

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  • When you say you reinstall and have no success are you asking for help to find the installer logs so you can see what failure was logged?
    – bmike ♦
    Commented Dec 5, 2019 at 12:12
  • Yeah, that could be the first step. In the meantime, I passed the USB port to a virtual machine, where I could access it without any problems, but not under macOS.
    – andyfreund
    Commented Dec 5, 2019 at 12:37

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Per Troubleshooting CH340G issues on macOS it could be a conflict between drivers eg. Apple's com.apple.DriverKit-AppleUSBCHCOM.dext and a third-party usbserial.kext. Disabling and removing drivers might help. I just restored access to /dev/tty.usbserial-1410 for an old LOLIN32 Lite ESP32 module by unplugging it and running:

sudo kextunload /Library/Extensions/usbserial.kext/
sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/usbserial.kext/

You can plug it back in after the first line to see if it helped. If so, proceed. If not, don't.

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