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Subject: Re: avrdude and arduino
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On Sun, 13 May 2012, Colin Barnabas wrote:

> Has anyone been able to get the Arduino Uno board working with
> avrdude? I keep getting programmer not responding errors.
>
> avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding
> avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
>
>
> This is the command I'm using:
>
> %sudo avrdude -F -v -v -v -v -c arduino -p ATMEGA328P -P /dev/cuaU0 -U flash:w:flash.hex
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

An easy way might be to install devel/arduino, turn on Preferences/Show 
verbose output during compilation, and copy the command line it uses. 
The catch is that you have to have the IDE set to use the correct board 
and programmer.

I have some scripts I can dig through if that fails.