[Ach linux] Arduino drivers

[Dark]

Hi,

I'm trying to connect my arduino to my raspberry pi. I would like to communicate over usb (virtual serial com port). The problem is that the arduino is not recognized.

When running dmesg:

usb 1-1.3: new full speed USB device number 10 using dwc_otg
usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=2341, idProduct=0001
usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=220
usb 1-1.3: Product: Arduino Uno
usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Arduino (www.arduino.cc)
usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: 64932343838351C00132

After a lot of searching I found out that I need the FTDI drivers. Normally there already built in linux. But not in the iso found on this site. But i'm pretty new at linux and I really don't know how to install those drivers.

[dolson14]

According to FTDI's Driver Page, the linux drivers are only available for x86 and x64 achitectures; they're not available for ARM (yet).

The good news is that ARM drivers are available for the Windows CE operating system, so when some bright mind tackles it, I don't think it will be too difficult to port the driver to ARM. It may even be trivial; hopefully someone with some know-how will catch this and see what they can do.

[Dark]

So until then there is no way to use the arduino?

[dolson14]

Depends on how you want to use it. The GPIO pins let you do serial communication directly via UART, or by SPI, I2C, etc. Without the FTDI driver, you won't be able to work with the FTDI chip on the arduino; in other words, you won't be able to open the USB port as a virtual comm port. There may be a way to bypass the FTDI chip, though, and go directly to the AVR instead. I'm not an arduino guy, so I'm not sure how feasible that will be...

I do reserve the right to be corrected on this.

[Jancis]

could this be related?
http://www.doctormonk.com/2012/04/raspb ... duino.html

[pepedog]

According to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6993050.html you have to manually load the module
modprobe ftdi_sio