a) DLed and unzipped arduino-0014-win.zip into directory arduino-0014.
b) Installed the FTDI USB Drivers. At least I think I have, under Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, Universal Serial Buss controllers I have a USB Serial Converter. It only appears when the Duemilanovo board is plugged in.
c) When I click the Arduino application in the arduino-0014 directory I get a dialog that says, "Java Virtual Machine Launcher" "Fatal exception occurred. Program will exit!"
Yesterday about this time in the day I DLed Arduino-0014 and started trying to get it to work on my Acer Aspire One running WinXT.
Guess I'm getting old, blind or both. I did not see the run.bat in the main Arduino directory. I would swear it was not there but most likely “Operator Error”.
Anyway, when you suggested execute run.bat, not seeing it I created one with an editor. Did not understand how that would make any difference but gave it a try anyway. Just like I thought, and like you are thinking now, thats a waste of time.
Don't know why but like they say in the States in football, when thing go wrong “backup and punt”. So I axed all the pieces of Arduino software on XT and DLed and extracted it again. This time there WAS a run.bat it the directory. Ran that and I was off and programming the M328 chip. Thanks for your help.
I'm also trying to move over to Linux Ubuntu. Have gotten Arduino to work in XT it was time to try it in Ubuntu. The install went fine. Blink compiled fine. The 'Serial Port' was saying /dev/ttyusb0 which sounded correct and it came and went as I connected and disconnected the USB connection. The LEDs on the Duemilanove board flashed like it was being programmed but the speed of the blinks did not change form 1 second to 0.1 second, the programming took a long time and I got an error
“AVRDUDE: STK500_rec(): Programmer is not responding”.
It took me some time and I was getting ready to ask about the problem here but then I read where someone mentioned having told Arduino software the wrong Atmel chip. Having used the Atmel STK500 and other interfaces to program AVRs, I went back to the software one more time. Instead of selecting “Arduino Diecimila or Duemilanove” I chose “Arduino w/ Atmega328”, recompiled and programmed the chip just like advertised.
Thanks, again.
Question. Say I plug the latest and greatest or some old out of production AVR into a breadboard, jumper the power and programming pins form the 28 pin DIP to that breadboarded chip, how do I tell the software what AVR I'm using and will/can I program it?