Re: [avr-chat] Avrdude and JTAG / Dragon...

[David Kelly]

On Mar 2, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> > They often have a 10-pin header on the motherboard for connecting  
> > an rs-232
> > connector and parallel port.
>
> I do have an internal header for a second serial port, that was one
> of the reasons I bought this particular board. But I had of course to
> add a bracket to gete a proper connector, and it so happens that the
> computer case I bought has a crap "tool-free" system to secure
> bracket/add-on cards, which means that as soon as I exerce any kind of
> force on the DB9 socket to try to plug a serial cable.. the bracket
> gets free and disappears in the computer case...


You can't be a Real Embedded Engineer until you have carved a D  
connector opening in a chassis by hand. Use file, drill, Dremel  
mototool, even X-Acto knife (works fairly well on aluminum), or any  
combination thereof.

:-)


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