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#1 2018-09-09 18:58:19

Jaxon
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Registered: 2018-06-05
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[SOLVED] Unable to read from and write to Arduino over USB

I have an Arduino Uno clone with a CH341 USB/UART adapter that I'm trying to upload to. Whenever I try to connect to the board I get different error messages that all say something along the lines of "/dev/ttyUSB0: Input/output error" (more detailed info further down). /dev/ttyUSB0 is owned by both root and uucp, the latter of which my user is a member of. Any help is appreciated.

Possibly relevant command outputs

dmesg when device is connected:

[ 5268.243853] usb 5-1: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 5268.407274] usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=7523, bcdDevice= 2.54
[ 5268.407280] usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 5268.407283] usb 5-1: Product: USB2.0-Serial
[ 5268.409270] ch341 5-1:1.0: ch341-uart converter detected
[ 5268.420463] usb 5-1: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0

ls -ahl /dev/ttyUSB0:

crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Sep  9 20:21 /dev/ttyUSB0

groups $USER:

uucp wheel $USER

cat /dev/ttyUSB0:

cat: /dev/ttyUSB0: Input/output error

journalctl when above command is executed:

Sep 09 20:21:45 Lorule kernel: usb 5-1: failed to receive control message: -110
Sep 09 20:21:45 Lorule kernel: ch341-uart ttyUSB0: failed to read modem status: -110

The output of 'cat /dev/ttyUSB0' and the subsequent output from 'journalctl' doesn't change when run as root.


EDIT: I should add that I have verified that the device works as expected on another computer also running Arch, however there are no differences in setup that I can think of that would be relevant.

Last edited by Jaxon (2018-09-11 18:45:37)

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#2 2018-09-11 18:16:48

kuznetsss
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Registered: 2018-01-13
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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to read from and write to Arduino over USB

Maybe you don't have permissions to read/write. Try:

 sudo cat /dev/ttyUSB0 

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#3 2018-09-11 18:21:10

Jaxon
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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to read from and write to Arduino over USB

kuznetsss wrote:

Maybe you don't have permissions to read/write. Try:

 sudo cat /dev/ttyUSB0 

I have tried running the command as root and the output doesn't change.

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#4 2018-09-11 18:26:39

kuznetsss
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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to read from and write to Arduino over USB

Have you tried different USB ports?

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#5 2018-09-11 18:44:20

Jaxon
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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to read from and write to Arduino over USB

kuznetsss wrote:

Have you tried different USB ports?

While I had already tried to connect the device to all the different USB hubs on my computer – with it not working on any of them – I decided I should make sure it still didn't before I posted that I had already tried all the hubs. Lo and behold – everything seems to work perfectly now! I have no idea what has changed since I last tried this, but it certainly wasn't fixed by a reboot, as I had already tried that multiple times. Thank you for making me try again! I guess I'll just mark this as solved then.

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