[ale] Can't load Arduino UNO

[Jim Lynch]

On 07/31/2011 04:27 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On 07/30/2011 08:02 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 19:02 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>> Do what? You mentioned 2 of the things I hate most XP and Flash.
>> In Linux there can be a problem with the USB connection to the Arduino
>> if it is constantly transmitting.  This may only be limited to Ubuntu
>> 11.04 which I run.  The solution for me was to flash the chip under
>> Windows XP.
>>
>>
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> 10.04 seems to work fine.  I never had that problem.  I've flashed
> hundreds of times without failure.  I suspect 11.04 is the culprit as
> you suggested.  11.04 seems to have a number of issues.  I think I'll
> stick to 10.04 for a while.
>
> Jim.
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Also I might mention, I was able to successfully run the Arduino IDE via 
an OpenVZ container.  When I first started messing with the Arduino I 
was running 8.04 but there was a bug in the compiler that wasn't fixed 
until 10.04, so I booted a virtual 10.04 session, configured it to have 
access to the USB port and it worked.  You could do the same, except 
they've decided to stop supporting OpenVZ in favor  of the buggy and 
unusable KVM. :(  For that reason I'm going to have to abandon Ubuntu.

Jim.