Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit; programmer is not responding

My problem is that I can not get the Arduino environment to program the board.

I followed the instructions to install Arduino as per:http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Ubuntu
Which I am recapping below:

  • sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre gcc-avr avr-libc - sudo update-alternatives --config java
    to make sure, sun-java is used- sudo apt-get install ia32-libs librxtx-java- $ wget http://arduino.googlecode.com/files/arduino-0017.tgz
    $ tar -xf arduino*.tgz
    $ cd arduino*- $ cd lib/
    $ mv RXTXcomm.jar RXTXcomm.jar-DISABLED
    $ mv librxtxSerial.so librxtxSerial.so-DISABLED
    $ cd ..
  • Made some changes to the arduino script
#!/bin/sh
 
APPDIR="$(dirname -- "${}")"
 
for LIB in \
    java/lib/rt.jar \
    java/lib/tools.jar \
    lib/*.jar \
    ;
do
    CLASSPATH="${CLASSPATH}:${APPDIR}/${LIB}"
done
CLASSPATH="${CLASSPATH}:/usr/share/java/RXTXcomm.jar"
export CLASSPATH
 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:'pwd'/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 
export PATH="${APPDIR}/java/bin:${PATH}"
 
java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel processing.app.Base
  • Set the USB port and board properly in Arduino IDE
  • ./arduino- Opened the Blink sketch- When I trie to upload I get the message
    avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
    avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

Parallel I tried the same board on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit without any problems.

I would like to hear from anyone who has this hardware/software combination that got it to work. Or, any other tips are welcome.

Thanks in advance.

I found another interesting post about this problem here which points to a bug report here

I may be late to the party... but just tonight I got Arduino 0017 running on my fresh Ubuntu 9.10 with no issues. Uploaded a couple sketches and it seems to be working fine. I had to set things slightly different to get it to work on Koala.

This guy Tom has a really straight forward tutorial that got me running.
http://www.codetorment.com/2009/11/02/tutorial-getting-started-with-arduino-ide-on-linux-ubuntu-9-10/

~Hope it help

Yes no problems with 32 bit, but 64 bit doesnt work uploading sketches to arduino cause of the broken ftdi driver.

Anyone with new informations?

I found another another bug on launchpad related to this topic Bug #228670 “AVRdude problems with USBTiny adapter on AMD64” : Bugs : Arduino. Until today I don't know any solution. But I realized that uploading sketches to ATMEGA168 works without any problems but not to ATMEGA328

Following all the instructions on Bug #228670 “AVRdude problems with USBTiny adapter on AMD64” : Bugs : avrdude package : Ubuntu burning the bootloader via USBtiny and arduino-017 I was able to upload sketches again without any errors