Programming mega 2560 using ftdi cable

Development Tools IDE 1.x
1

Is it possible to use a ftdi cable to upload sketch into a mega 2560 ?
We want to use ftdi because the normal way to upload sketch is not possible.

Greatings J.

2

What normal way? Why isn't it possible?

Yes, you should be able to do that, because the FTDI cable would bypass the USB chip.

3

I tried to do that but it didn't work.
Is it possible that the ftdi can't match with the bootloader of the Mega 2560 ??

We want to do it by FTDI because the normal way doesn't work, we get a lot of messages:

avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer
avrdude: stk500v2_command(): failed miserably to execute command 0x10
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

gr.

4

Can sombody help me ?

5

Photo? You've given practically no information here.

6

Which informatie do you need ?

Photo ?

gr. John