Arduino on Fedora 17 64-bit

[Louisda16th]

Has anyone got Arduino working for Fedora 17?

I can open the application and compile programs. But I am unable to upload programs to my Uno board. The Tx Rx lights don't blink when I click upload so I guess it's not communicating at all. I get the following error in the IDE: avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

When I installed arduino, I saw that the dependencies got installed as well. Has anyone else faced this issue and been able to fix it?

Thanks! :-)

[beason4251]

Bump. I've got the same issue here with my Adruino Ethernet.

I've noticed that I get the error even if the chip is not connected to the computer, so I think you're right that nothing is communicating with the Arduino.

[Louisda16th]

I'll raise this in the FEL mailing list. Hopefully someone should have a solution to this over there.

[beason4251]

Today I picked up an Arduino Uno and was able to get it to work with Fedora 17. I didn't have to do anything special; it immediately worked. I was able to program it by connecting it directly to my computer via USB.

The problem seems to be with communicating with the Arduino Ethernet through a serial port programmer.

[Louisda16th]

I'm not able to program it via USB. It works fine on the Windows IDE.

[beason4251]

I don't know what could be wrong with the USB connection, but I did find the solution to the problem with the Arduino Ethernet.

If anyone's trying to program via serial, like through an OLIMEX, I found a workaround. Apparently the F17 package arduino-1.0-4.fc17.noarch doesn't work unless a modification is made to programmers.txt in the /etc/arduino folder.

The line:
avrispmkii.communication=usb
Needs to be changed to:
avrispmkii.communication=serial
in order to go through a serial programmer.

[Louisda16th]

Could you please run arduino from the terminal for me? I get this when I open the IDE from the terminal:

WARNING:  RXTX Version mismatch
	Jar version = RXTX-2.2
	native lib Version = RXTX-2.2pre2

The IDE does open after that. But if I'm right, rxtx is what is used to communicate with the board. Could a version mismatch be the cause?

EDIT: I got it to work. It was stupid of me to overlook this. The wrong serial port was selected :-|

[beason4251]

Good! Glad you fixed it.

Yeah, the RXTX version mismatch doesn't seem to impact anything. As far as I can tell the only thing it does is show that error message. I suppose if someone really wanted they could downgrade, but I haven't noticed any issues.

[odalcet]

My Arduino Uno didn't work in Fedora 17 32-bit (IDE 1.0.3)

There are some instructions Arduino Playground.

So I opened a terminal as root and typed

chmod 777 /run/lock

Now it works!