Quickly losing enthuasism...

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hello all.
I'm looking for someone who can help me, here or through email, to get this Arduino UNO working on Linux Mint. I'm not a novice nor a hardcore server guy... Just someone in the middle who has bought a starter kit from Adafruit and several books.

I have a MacBook, which won't update for some reason, and I'm willing to buy a Windows computer if need be. I also have a laptop with 12.10 Ubuntu. I just need a little help to get this up and running.

I've done all the basic troubleshooting, tried every combination of port and programmer, upload and "upload using programmer," and I still end up with the same errors:

"programmer is not responding" and the one about not finding USB.

The computer is new, haven't had time to screw it up yet.

I've used C and some related languages, so the language doesn't scare me. I just need help compiling without any errors. Once I get the blink program working, I'll take it from there.

Much, much appreciation to anyone willing to provide a little hand-holding.

Thanks,
Kyle

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Welcome to the forum. I cannot help with your particular issues but there are others that probably will.

The Arduino is a great thing to play with....once you get going!

Weedpharma

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What is the specific error you getting when you try to upload the blink sketch?

You mentioned the "programmer not responding" sadly that could point to a lot of stuff. Please post a verbose log of the upload. You can enable this through the preferences menu of the IDE.

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Does any of this help?

In a terminal, with the board plugged in, enter lsusb.

Look for:
ID 2341:#### an Arduino board

In a terminal, with the board plugged in, enter.
ls -l /dev/ttyACM*, this will show the group that has access to the port.

Example: crw-rw-r-- 1 root dialout ... /dev/ttyACM0, root is owner, dialout is the group with access.

Entering the command, groups, in a terminal will show the groups you belong to.

sudo adduser YourUserName GroupToJoin Will fix things if you need to join a group, logout and login after you run adduser.

sudo usermod -a -G GroupToJoin YourUserName will do the same.

Try a different USB cable.

Maybe the board is bad, do the leds light up or blink?

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Folks, I did all of those things you suggested earlier and it wasn't working. Then I did it just now, performed 4 tests, switching between sketches AND NOW IT WORKS!!!

Not very scientific but I can only think it was your positive energy. Thank you!!!!

Off to tinker. :slight_smile:

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Can we say you are now quickly gaining enthusiasm?

Weedpharma

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weedpharma:
Can we say you are now quickly gaining enthusiasm?

Weedpharma

Ah yes, and losing sleep (three more sketches already!) Thanks.