Re: [avr-chat] avrdude stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout

[Galen Seitz]

Onno van Eijk <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am trying to program an Atmega32 on a stk500 development board by
> using avrdude.
> 
> >  avrdude -p atmega32 -P /dev/ttyS5 -c stk500v2 -U flash:w:MessageBoard.hex
> 
> starts the programming proces. And usaly it programs the chip but it is
> very slow (writing 4224 bytes of flash takes about 118 seconds) and
> produces a lot of stk500_2_ReceiveMessage90; timeout messages.
> 
> I asume this is not 'normal' behaviour. Does anybody have any
> suggestions to speed up the programming proces and eliminate the timeout
> messages? Is the problem with avrdude, the serial drivers or with the
> stk500?
> 
> I use avrdude on Ubuntu 6.06, kernel 2.6.15-23-amd64 but have
> experienced the same problem on my labtop (ubuntu 5.10, kernel
> 2.6.12-10-386) on both avrdude 5 as 5.1

This is a longshot, but is there a possibility that some other program
has the serial port open?  I have gotten timeouts like this when I've
had kermit running simultaneously with avrdude.

galen