arduino usb/com port issue

[Tomasz CEDRO]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 9:10 PM Gary Aitken wrote:
> Duh.  It was not clear from the ports tree that arduino18 is the
> more up-to-date version of arduino.  Installing the arduino18 package
> deletes the arduino package, and when it comes up it properly finds
> the arduino uno device on cuaU0.  It lists two devices under Serial
> Ports:
>    /dev/cuaU0
>    /dev/cuaU0 (Arduino Genuino Uno)
> and the second one is checked (and works).  Why there are two entries
> for the same device is unclear, but at least it works.
>
> There are no notes in UPDATING or the ports themselves indicating
> the arduino port is (probably?) obsolete.
>
> Thanks all for your help.  devinfo -v makes my head hurt, but it was
> illuminating :-).

Glad to hear it works now! :-)

The old version probably may be still used if its there for some reason :-)

Have fun! :-)

Tomek

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