[kw-pm] Problems I had getting my arduino going

[abez]

I mean arduino, sorry.

abram

abez wrote:
> I had various problems getting the arduino going, I was on 64bit ubuntu
> which causes some problems as well. Also our arduinos have the ATMEGA328
> chipset which means you need a AVR-GCC 4.3 or better just to support
> this chipset.
> 
> Stuff that I remember that could be helpful (sorry for the quality this
> is pretty spotty)
> 
> In arduino IDE I was getting errors:
> 
> avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x20
> avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x20
> 
> I then Selected the 328 board, unfortunately 8.04 doesn't support it
> with the
> avr-gcc :( and it gave me wacky errors.
> 
> So on Ubuntu 8.04 you need Java and the java RXTX stuff installed:
> http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/arduino_editor_on_64_bit_ubuntu_gutsy.html
> Change run.sh so it uses the ubuntu RXTX lib
> BTW, I had to be in the build/linux directory before make.sh would work.
> 
> Then if you're on 8.04 you need to compile an avr-oriented GCC and libc,
> follow
> the instructions here or use their build script:
> 
> http://avrwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Building_AVR_GCC
> Install AVR-Binutils AVR-GCC  AVR-Libc and AVR-UISP from src
> Need to download full GCC to get g++, need to tell GCC during configure
> that you want c++ as well.
> UISP did not compile correctly I had to modify a makefil to ignore warnings.
> Change AVR-UISP -Werror in src/Makefile to nothing, so it'll compile and
> not barf on warnings.
> 
> abram
> 


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