I used my magnifying glass to check the components on the board and am pretty sure I see a second led in addition to the power on led. Anyway, I added an external led and it works so I think the onboard RGB led just doesn't work.

Also, after flashing with the JTAG cable I find I have to disconnect ...

Hello to all from Canada.
This is my first post. If it's not in the right place I trust the mods will move it to the proper place, thank you.

I recently purchased this esp32 board and this cable from Amazon.

I am attempting to flash the board via Arduino IDE 2.3.10 running on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS ...