Da Vinci MCU unable to connect

Thanks to the Illustrious help of @Sineos we were told that there’s a known issue with debian 11 specifically that causes the original board for the Davinci 1.0 pro systems to utterly be incapable of flashing,

at first I was under the impression that I needed an older operating system, however with some reading, and guidance from my friend LuiGoalma, known for his work in DS hacking, we theorized this would work if we just… went to Debian 12.

I quickly flashed the debian 12 version of raspbian os and installed Klipper with Kiauh along with mainsail and… I think everything else?

and then flashed the board the normal way, uppon doing so we did immediately succeed in flashing the firmware and now have something that like @Sineos said looks like this as the output of the ls /dev/serial/by-id/* output

/dev/serial/by-id/usb-Klipper_sam4e8e_003135534A594E4B3230303231303034-if00

which is more in line what we thought, from here it should be easier for others with this board to avoid the pitfalls I’ve faced with this project in the furture,

Happy printing and thank you so much to the Klipper community for your fast and knowledgable contributions.

edit: uppon further reading it seems we are unable to get the original mainboard to control the nozzle as it is a second processor controlled over uart from the first as stated here by the ever helpful Davinci10

will likely have to have a second board in here as well to control hotend,

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