Wireless Fio programming with Mac

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Has somebody got it working? I've done everything according to these instructions

I'm using the Sparkfun XBee Explorer USB. I have tried everything with and without the jumper soldered. I also tried manually reseting the Fio at various times around the time I hit the upload.

According to this article

you should also solder a jumper on the Fio. On my Fio it is soldered at the factory, haven't tried to open it.

I seem to have to XBees configured right, but when I try to upload, I get this:

Binary sketch size: 1042 bytes (of a 30720 byte maximum)
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

and then "Problem uploading to board". I get exactly the same even with the Fio turned off. However, I get activity on all the LEDs on the XBee Explorer, and RSSI (and the LED next to the reset button) on the Fio as I try to upload.

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Whatwhatwhat? Just after writing the above, I tried one more time, and the upload worked! I haven't changed anything, even the Arduino software is still running in the same window. I have tried for at least fifty times before. I now have the jumpers closed on both the XBee Explorer and the Fio.

Hope somebody has some idea what's going on!

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Now I'm suspecting my laptop, an early 2006 Macbook. Sometimes the upload works, sometimes not. Guess I was running too much stuff at same time when the upload didn't work at all.