Bluefruit EZ-Link Bluetooth Shield for Arduino

[DancesWithWords]

This is a copy of a post that I posted to the Adafriut forums.


I received my Ez-link shield last week and have not been able to upload code to the shield in my Gentoo Linux box. I took it to a friend place and used his window computer. The shield accepted code just fine. So we know the shield is working.

I receive the following error msg:

avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "/dev/rfcomm0": No route to host
ioctl("TIOCMGET"): Inappropriate ioctl for device


I've done a lot of googling the past week and don't seem to see a solution. Is there any help or suggestions you might have. I've also tested this shield on Kubuntu and Crunchbang Linux without success.


There reply: was we don't support Linux.

I don't suppose that there is someone here that might be able to give me some advise?


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DWW