Linux Mint 21 port problem with Arduino Nano

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Linux Mint 21 port problem with Arduino Nano

Hello Arduino gurus, I hope you can help me with my problem.

I have recently upgraded Lunux Mint to 21 and found out that my Arduino IDE is not showing ports.
First - the ttyUSB0 port is shown, but I couldn't upload anything to Arduino UNO connected to it. I have solved this problem by adding user to dailout group. The same is for Arduino MKR WIFI 1010.

When I connect my Arduino Nano to USB as before, port shows for a second, then it disappears. I have check the USB cable, use different Arduino Nano, reinstall Linux Mint to Mate desktop, nothing helps.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Are you using appimage for run the IDE?

If so, you could try with flatpak.

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You need to be a member of the dialout group.
Type 'groups', is 'dialout' there ?
sudo usermod -a -G tty yourUserName -
sudo usermod -a -G tty gil (example on my machine)
sudo usermod -a -G dialout yourUserName
Log off and log on again for the changes to take effect.

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If you run the dmesg, is there any reference to BRLTTTY? If yes, uninstall BRLTTY or create udev rules to disable it. It has been mentioned a few times on the forum, a search for BRLTTY should give you the pointers how to do it.

Note that dmesg output can be very long; I'm not sure when BRLTTY will show up, possibly just after the detection of your board. In that case, you can use dmesg -w (use <ctrl>C to abort).

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Brilliant, uninstalling BRLTTTY worked! Thank you very much for the pointer!

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Thank you for idea, but I tried both ways of installation, with file and with flatpack...

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I had the same problem. I removed the BRLTTY and typed
groups
in the terminal to see no dialout in the list.
I put
sudo usermod -a -G dialout MyUserName
in the terminal as you show and then typed
groups
again, no dialout.
I restarted the computer and typed
groups
to find dialout in the list
The upload for my setup works perfectly now. Thank you.

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