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Please confirm your cable is working.
Arduino usually makes ttyACM0 only, as much as I know.
Give permission to this interface using below command:

sudo chmod 777 /dev/ttyACM0
Were you able to flash the code?
You have to run roscore in a separate tab as well.

Saurabh

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