[avrdude-dev] Connecting to Arduino board from recent FreeBSD

[Marcin Cieslak]

Hello,

I am pretty new to AVR development, but I've been using FreeBSD
over 10 years now.

I am having trouble connecting to the Arduino (www.arduino.cc)
development board using FreeBSD-CURRENT (r206987M) using
the built-in USB port (based on FTDI chipset).

Details of what's happening are there:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=usb/149283

In the meantime, I have tested Windows Vista (32 bit)
on the same machine and found out that both:

C:\WINAVR-20100110\bin\avrdude.exe -CC:\WINAVR-20100110\bin\avrdude.conf -v -v 
-v -v -patmega328p -carduino -P\\.\COM25 -b57600 -D 
-Uflash:w:C:\Users\Saper\Blink.cpp.hex:i

(avrdude 5.10 bundled with WINAVR-20100110, and:)

c:\arduino-0018\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude 
-CC:\arduino-0018\hardware\tools\avr\etc\avrdude.conf -v -v -v -v -patmega328p 
-cstk500v1 -P\\.\COM25 -b57600 -D -Uflash:w:C:\Users\Saper\Blink.cpp.hex:i

(avrdude 5.4 bundled with Arduino 0018 IDE)

work without any problems with the same hardware.

I have tried 5.10 and trunk on the BSD, with
-carduino and -cstk500v1, with -b57600 and -b19200,
but nothing works - not even blink on RX/TX diode
of the board.

-v -v -v -v gives:

avrdude: Version 5.10, compiled on Aug  3 2010 at 23:59:35
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "/usr/local/etc/avrdude.conf"
         User configuration file is "/usr/home/saper/.avrduderc"
         User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, 
skipping

         Using Port                    : /dev/cuaU0
         Using Programmer              : stk500v1
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 19200
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

Anyone got avrdude talking to devboards in a pretty recent FreeBSD 9?

--Marcin