Mac & Linux serial problems

[Pierce Nichols]

I just blogged about this
(http://www.logos-electro.com/blog/2011/7/16/mac-linux-loading-problem-fixed.html),
and insert the s/stk500v1/arduino/ fix into Git. Thank you all for
your help and patience.

-p

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Pierce Nichols
Principal Engineer
Logos Electromechanical, LLC

[zhey...@gmail.com]

hi, 

I am a bit confused with the linux installation in the wiki

For Linux, you don't need to unpack the tools/avr⁶ directory of the Zigduino Core. You will need to install avr-gcc-4.3.2 or later and avr-libc-1.6.7 or later in order to compile for the Atmega128RFA1. This should not negatively impact compilation for other chips.

what is the exact procedure I need to do? I have installed the gcc-avr as this blog post said.

http://blog.markloiseau.com/2012/05/install-arduino-ubuntu/

many thanks

[Pierce Nichols]

The essential problem here is that the toolchain that the Arduino
environment ships with is one version too old to support the
Atmega128RFA1 that powers the Zigduino. You need avr-gcc-4.3.3 or
later to do that (the wiki is in error, and thank you for bringing
that to my attention). On a Windows installation, that toolchain is in
the tools/avr directory. On Linux, AIUI, the Arduino IDE uses the
system-wide version of avr-gcc. So, if you've installed the latest
version of avr-gcc and avr-libc you should be good to go.

-p

[Jerry Gao]

hi pierce

thanks a lot for the update, but I am very new to the arduino platform, so for the linux, do I just need to copy the bootloader/ & core/ to arduino dir accordingly and append the board.txt?

many thanks

jerry