How do I communicate with Arduino Mega 2560 r3?

Question

I recently purchased Arduino Mega, and I'm tring it to make it communicate with Ubuntu 13.04 64bit, without success.

At arduino IDE the option Tools → Serial Port is grayed out.

Is there any driver I need to install?

Solution

See this link: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson0-lin.html

If it does not work, you can use:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre avr-libc gcc-avr

I have an Arduino UNO and went through the same problem.

Comments

[Manos]

Thanks for your answer. I followed the guide but it stuck on the step that it says to type on terminal ls /dev/ttyUSB*. No such file or direcctory. I also tried the other options described at the guide, with no luck..

[Patterson]

Tried it? sudo apt-get install gcc-avr avr-libc

[Manos]

imageshack.us/f/9/swma.png This is what i get

[Manos]

I fixed it.. Thanks.. I downloaded the 1.0.3 IDE version from ubuntu software center thats why it didnt worked. It worked great with 1.0.5!!

[Patterson]

It is true! I also had installed version 1.0.5

[Braiam]

Could you give more details? How exactly I do that? Edit your question and be more verbose.