Programmer is not responding

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Hello.

I have made my own Arduino Duemilanove with Atmega168. When I click on the “Upload to I/O Board” button in the Arduino IDE I'm getting an error:

Binary sketch size: 976 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

Operating system is Mac OS X. I tried all driver versions but I'm still getting the same error. I think board and serial port is selected right.
But on Windows XP, my Arduino works perfect. Windows is installed on Mac with Parallels.

I think its software problem. What I'm doing wrong?

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Any suggestions?

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no idea. Check if it works on a windows machine or if the board is damaged.

How did you put the bootloader to the Atmega168 of your own Arduino?

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On PC with Windows XP the Arduino works perfect. On Mac with Windows XP it works perfect too. But on Mac with Mac OS X Leopard the Arduino doesn't work. When I click on upload button RX LED flashes few times and I get that error.

The bootloader is burnt with USB Tiny ISP through the Arduino IDE.

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I don't like to use Arduino with Mac OS because the FTDI drivers "are not good".
Maybe try to reinstall the drivers (uninstall them and then reinstall them)...
I can upload sketches via Arduino IDE on Leopard, so at least it is possible (using Arduino 0014).

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I tried to reinstall drivers; also I tried other versions of Arduino IDE. I think there is only one way out of a situation – reinstall Mac OS X :-/

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Did you select the proper type of Arduino from the Tools > Boards menu, when running on the native MacOS?

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Yes, I selected "Arduino Diecimila or Duemilanove w/ ATmega168". Also I have tried all other types.
When I click on upload button, RX led flashes like on windows xp without ATmega168 chip. It seems that Arduino IDE can't see ATmega168 chip.

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I give up. Nothing works. :frowning:

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It still doesn't work. That's what I see, when I have enabled upload.verbose in Arduino preferences file.

Binary sketch size: 896 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)
hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -Chardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -v -v -v -pm168 -cstk500v1 -P/dev/tty.usbserial-A80083bt -b19200 -D -Uflash:w:/Users/ernis/Desktop/arduino-0016/examples/Digital/Blink/applet/Blink.hex:i 


avrdude: Version 5.4-arduino, compiled on Oct  9 2007 at 11:20:31
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/

         System wide configuration file is "hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
         User configuration file is "/Users/ernis/.avrduderc"
         User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

         Using Port            : /dev/tty.usbserial-A80083bt
         Using Programmer      : stk500v1
         Overriding Baud Rate  : 19200
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: Send: Q [51]   [20] 
avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
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Try pressing the reset button on the board a second or so before - or just at the same time as - pressing the upload button in the IDE. The board should reset automatically, but maybe it's not for some reason.

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I use a Mac and my Arduino works fine.