🚨 ERROR: cannot communicate with the Proxmark (on Mac OS)

Hamspiced · September 21, 2024, 3:37am

Yeah I’m suspect that it isn’t actually generating the image files. I’ll like to help out but won’t be in front of my computer until Monday. If you don’t mind waiting I’ll check back then

user581 · September 25, 2024, 6:35pm

It looks like the bootrom.elf file is missing from github. proxmark3/bootrom/obj at master · RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3 · GitHub

user581 · September 25, 2024, 6:39pm

I’m following the directions on this page.

Pilgrimsmaster · September 25, 2024, 7:48pm

My suggestion is delete it all, and start afresh with this awesome new tool.

https://siliconbased.us/pm3/install/

Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha · September 25, 2024, 9:19pm

bootrom.elf isn’t supposed to be on the github, it’s generated locally as you compile everything (I think)

I think you should be able to get away with running just brew install RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/arm-none-eabi-gcc and then re-running make clean && make -j8 all

But,

Is more fun in my opinion

Hamspiced · September 25, 2024, 11:51pm

My guess is make clean command isn’t finishing and you’re getting hung up somewhere

Hamspiced · September 25, 2024, 11:52pm

Brew pm3 installs just do not work for me at all on m1 Macs

Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha · September 26, 2024, 12:21am

Unfortunately I’ve only got older MacBook’s to test on

Need to swing by a tech store and borrow one for a few minutes

user581 · September 26, 2024, 3:58am

PM3 Wizard worked perfectly, thank you!

user581 · September 26, 2024, 4:01am

I opened up the script for PM3 Wizard tool and the make clean command is different than what’s in this guide. Not sure what this difference does. make clean && make -j vs make clean && make -j8 all

Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha · September 26, 2024, 4:15am

No major difference here, it’s not what would have been causing your issue

I believe all is the default target to the make command here, so leaving it off shouldn’t change anything

-j vs -j8 is how many parallel processes make can spawn, the script doesn’t limit the number, but 8 is also plenty

Pilgrimsmaster · September 26, 2024, 5:49am

All credit to @Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha

maehko · November 6, 2024, 6:08am

I’m on an M3 mac and seem to be running into architecture issues (errors below.) I did find the guidance to brew install jansson, which i did but ended up with the same errors. I’ve dug around and haven’t found other reports of similar behavior.

ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/Cellar/jansson/2.14/lib/libjansson.4.dylib': found architecture 'x86_64', required architecture 'arm64'
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/Cellar/lz4/1.10.0/lib/liblz4.1.10.0.dylib': found architecture 'x86_64', required architecture 'arm64'
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/Cellar/gd/2.3.3_6/lib/libgd.3.dylib': found architecture 'x86_64', required architecture 'arm64'
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.0_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/Python': found architecture 'x86_64', required architecture 'arm64'
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/Cellar/readline/8.2.13/lib/libreadline.8.2.dylib': found architecture 'x86_64', required architecture 'arm64'
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/Cellar/qt@5/5.15.15_2/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets': found architecture 'x86_64', required architecture 'arm64'
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/Cellar/qt@5/5.15.15_2/lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui': found architecture 'x86_64', required architecture 'arm64'
ld: warning: ignoring file '/usr/local/Cellar/qt@5/5.15.15_2/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore': found architecture 'x86_64', required architecture 'arm64'
Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:

<omitted references>

ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[1]: *** [proxmark3] Error 1
make: *** [client/all] Error 2

amal · November 6, 2024, 6:37am

Looks like you have an apple arm processor version of the software… is your hardware using Intel.

maehko · November 6, 2024, 7:10am

Yes, the M3 is an apple silicon ARM architecture. KB indicates the jansson package should address the issue, but that doesn’t seem to be the case in this instance.

amal · November 6, 2024, 7:14am

I’m not sure if this is referring to the hardware architecture or the software… like is it saying it found an Intel processor or is it saying it found software for an Intel processor… it’s not clear to me.

Hamspiced · November 6, 2024, 7:32am

Looks like you’re trying to install via brew.

Others have had success with this but I’m not one of them.

First make sure you have Rosetta 2 installed.

Then brew uninstall proxmark3

Then

arch -arm64 brew install --HEAD proxmark3

maehko · November 6, 2024, 6:36pm

Not installing proxmark via brew - there were of course some prerequisites that brew installed, but the error is generated following execution of the make -j8 all command in the guidance documented above.

Hamspiced · November 6, 2024, 6:56pm

Okay that is helpful, Which guide did you follow to setup your environment?

maehko · November 6, 2024, 7:27pm

Your original post above from March 11th. Trusted the statement that brew was not the way.