How are you? I was wondering, whether you solved your upload problem on the Fio board. I'm also on Mac OS X 10.8.5 and try to power an Arduino Fio. My problem is, that when I hook up the Fio on the USB, no usbmodem Serial Port shows up, in difference to say the Arduino Uno, where upload is working fine. I use the blink sketch for upload test. The response from the IDE upload is the following: avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding.
I tried removing and re-installing the FTDI USBSerialDriver a few times, but to no avail, upload still fails and no Serial Port is showing up. If you have any suggestions, or could tell me whether you have a usbmodem or not, would already be of great help to me. thank you so much for your time and concern.
Thank You indeed for your most helpful correspondance. I've gotten underway and entirely by my own mistake didn't realize that the Arduino Fio needs this FTDI breakout board or alternatively and FTDI Cable. I went with this product now: FTDI Basic Breakout - 3.3V, on SparkFun FTDI Basic Breakout - 3.3V - DEV-09873 - SparkFun Electronics, instead of the Breakout Board for FT232RL USB to Serial that you suggested, only because I didn't feel so adventurous, re-soldering the board for 3.3V operation. I hope it will work.
Of course now I am awaiting shipment first and then I see if questions like this, "The pinout of this board matches the FTDI cable - What cable?" resolves in the matter of finally getting hands-on with my project.
But so much thank you dear Kevin, also for the command line code you submitted, I'll gladly check that out when I hook up to Fio via the break out board/FTDI Cable. What type or kind of cable do you use by chance, if I may ask?
Hi, Daniel,
So glad I can be the one giving advise for once!
The soldering iron, you must fear not! Your best friend it will become!
The only other cable you will need is a mini (not micro) USB cable.
Hope it all works out, and if you ever find the answer to my original question posted above please do tell...