If you don't see a serial port name that starts with
usbmodem, then the Mac isn't recognizing your Z-Stick (or at least the Mac's modem driver, which is what that version of the Z-Stick uses). A couple of things to look for:
1) Open the
System Information app, select the
USB option under
Hardware, and look for an entry in the
USB Device Tree named
Communication Device. If it's there and you click on it, you should see something like this in the details section below the tree:
Communication Device:
Product ID: 0x0200
Vendor ID: 0x0658 (Sigma Designs, Inc.)
Version: 0.00
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/s
Location ID: 0x02141420 / 17
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 100
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
If you don't see that, then your Z-Stick isn't being recognized at all by your Mac. Try moving it to other USB ports. If you have a USB2 HUB definitely try it there.
2) If it does show up on in the
System Information app, then open the Terminal app and paste in the following command:
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ls -la /dev/tty.*
It should show something similar to this:
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crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0x9000006 Nov 10 11:10 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0x9000000 Nov 16 10:54 /dev/tty.usbmodem21414201
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0x9000002 Nov 16 11:00 /dev/tty.usbserial-A700eTEj
If it doesn't show an entry that contains
usbmodem, then the built-in modem driver in macOS isn't recognizing your Z-Stick.
Let us know what you find. Also, please confirm that you indeed have the Z-Stick Gen5 (and not the Gen7 interface which is much smaller and doesn't have a button).