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In frustrated.

I bought the RFM12pi and tried to follow the wiki page how to upgrade the firmware. The wiki is quite unclear with the "Update" information added.

I have tried multiples times (cleaning up the RPi with a re-install) to get the upgrade to work. No sucess, each time gives me a the output below:

root@raspberrypi:/var/tmp/RFM2Pi/firmware/RF12_Demo_atmega328# avrdude -v -c arduino -p ATMEGA328P -P /dev/ttyAMA0 -b 38400

avrdude-original: Version 5.11.1, compiled on May 23 2012 at 11:08:25
                  Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
                  Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

                  System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
                  User configuration file is "/root/.avrduderc"
                  User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

                  Using Port                    : /dev/ttyAMA0
                  Using Programmer              : arduino
                  Overriding Baud Rate          : 38400
avrdude-original: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude-original done.  Thank you.

root@raspberrypi:/var/tmp/RFM2Pi/firmware/RF12_Demo_atmega328#

* Getty has been removed from ttyAMA0 in /etc/inittab

* The RFM12pi flashes when power is applied to the RPi, however a minicom session (minicom -b 38400 -D /dev/ttyAMA0) doesn't display a thing!

The unclear info on the wiki page for the RFM1pi, including references to forum discussions and info the git page doesn't make the setup easy for a new user.

If someone could give the step-by-step instruction how to get it working, it would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!