Since not all cables are working, let's try to find out which ones do and why some do not.

For learning more about USB cables, this looks useful (after the annoying cookie prefs): https://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=ideas-and-advice/usb-cable-guide Couple of useful RPi forum threads: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=250981 https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=284100 And there's a bit of detailed info here: https://behind-the-scenes.net/raspberry-pi-usb-ports/

the usb c cable you get with GoPro's works... 😄

so the combination of a newer CM4 and a cheaper cable improves your chances of getting it to work?

I have a cheap USB-A - USB-C cable from Hama (0.25m), with a USB-C to USB-A adapter (also Hama) on it, and that works.

Thank you!

To make it a USB-A - USB-A, yes

Oh, this way, us USB-C female to USB-A male?

yes

Yes like that, but a single piece with no wire between

Yes, yes, just wanted to make sure. thank you!

With Apple at least, I’d suspect that the cable only has power lanes but no data lanes, at least that’s the type of USB-C->USB-C cable that they ship as charger cable with their laptops

Yeah I didn't expect that one to work either. So I have to make do with 25 cm of cable.

Also when collecting information about what works and what doesn’t, I might be entirely wrong but I’d try to focus on few more factors than the cable itself: - PC/mac - Intel/AMD (could indicate Thunderbolt being a factor) - Hub/direct connection - Trying to connect to node1/node2-4 (I’ve seen multiple times people having problems connecting to node1 specifically) https://discord.com/channels/754950670175436841/754950670175436848/1066884421933858888