Hi all, I think a little clarity is needed here. There we saw in two systems today at an arduino meetup, both running debian.
The shortcut way that one of the devs. at the maker shared was to do :- $ sudo arduino to get the serial port to show. I was a bit tired and distracted at that time to be of any real help. Later I remembered, that just like when trying to write a CD/DVD the user has to be a member of the cdrom group. Similarly, for serial port access he might need to be a member of some groups as well. Also having the whole application exposed via sudo might entail a security risk. Then a quick search lead me to this :- http://playground.arduino.cc/Linux/Debian#.UzcQ6x__TQU and esp. this part :- sudo usermod -a -G tty yourUserName sudo usermod -a -G dialout yourUserName I don't either have a PI or the aurdino to test this theory but was able to get the groups part while trying an external hdd which I can connect and disconnect at will. before connecting :- $ ls /dev/sd <TAB> sda sda1 sda2 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 After connecting the external hdd :- $ ls /dev/sd sda sda1 sda2 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sdb sdb1 $ ls -al /dev/sdb brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 16 Mar 30 00:30 /dev/sdb hence you can figure out the group from that and yourself to that group and it should work. Looking at the package, figured there is a binary which fixes the permissions at least in debian. $arduino-add-groups Just run the command and see if it works without resorting to sudo. If the above works, then the bug is no longer there, just send a blank mail to 742953-d...@bugs.debian.org -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
