avrdude unable to talk to Arduino board (via uftdi)

[Marcin Cieslak]

>> # avrdude -c arduino -p m328p -P /dev/cuaU0 -v

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

> What happens if you use "-P usb" ?

# ldd /usr/local/bin/avrdude 
/usr/local/bin/avrdude:
 	libusb.so.2 => /usr/lib/libusb.so.2 (0x80068e000)
 	libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x80079c000)
 	libreadline.so.8 => /lib/libreadline.so.8 (0x8008bb000)
 	libncurses.so.5.7 => /usr/local/lib/libncurses.so.5.7 (0x8009f7000)
 	libncurses.so.8 => /lib/libncurses.so.8 (0x800b14000)
 	libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800c5e000)
 	libtinfo.so.5.7 => /usr/local/lib/libtinfo.so.5.7 (0x800e91000)
# avrdude -c arduino -p m328p -P usb -v

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 "/root/.avrduderc"
          User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

          Using Port                    : usb
          Using Programmer              : arduino
avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "usb": No such file or directory

--Marcin