Trouble uploading a sketch on Windows 7

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I’m never sure where to put this stuff so please excuse me. I got a new map done and it compiled okay and then I got this message and yes, it’s Windows 7. Is that still related to the driver issue?

Sketch uses 18152 bytes (63%) of program storage space. Maximum is 28672 bytes.
Global variables use 1659 bytes (64%) of dynamic memory, leaving 901 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2560 bytes.

avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
Problem uploading to board. See http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting#upload for suggestions.
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
Found programmer: Id = “þ”; type = È
Software Version = (.

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I think that is the driver issue…I believe Jesse is still trying to track that one down for Windows 7.

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Innnnteresting. That’s closer than I’ve gotten on Windows 7.

When you hit “upload”, were you holding down the ‘Prog’ key on the Model 01?

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I wasn’t holding it down the whole time. I wasn’t sure how long to hold it down, but i can hold it down longer.

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You should start holding it down when you hit “Upload” and release it when you start to see a red light zipping across your keys. (Or when the programmer has errored out.)

But without drivers, I’ll be really pleasantly surprised if this works on Win7.

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I have two available ports and i tried them both

avrdude: error: buffered memory access not supported. Maybe it isn’t
a butterfly/AVR109 but a AVR910 device?
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: programmer did not respond to command: leave prog mode
avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: error: programmer did not respond to command: exit bootloader

Someone on an Arduino forum suggested it could be a simple cable issue but I don’t know anything about that.

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Do your ports look like this by any chance? Imgur: The magic of the Internet

The COM numbers may be different in your case, but the main issue here is that none of these belong to the keyboard. If one of them did, the port would be named after the keyboard, i.e. Model01.

It’s the driver issue.

You can read up on it in this thread Windows 7: COM Port for Model 01 not showing up

Jesse promised to have it working by tomorrow wink

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Yeah, they’re just regular ports

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If you disconnect your keyboard, does one of them disappear?

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I thought I promised I’d try :wink:

Anyway, that’s what, I hope to be spending the rest of today on.

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It’s ok, I don’t want to push you. If it comes to that, I can survive a few more days, or even weeks, using Autohotkey! :relaxed: but not longer

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No, I used to only have one.I can’t remember how I got the other one

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I’ll be okay for a bit. I’ve used Auto Hotkey but it’s been a while. I’m not that busy with work right now anyway.