RE: [avr-chat] Where is the best place forHI a newbie go to for helpwith avrdude?

[Weddington, Eric]

Avrdude project here:
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avrdude>

It has it's own mailing list.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden
>  On Behalf Of Nicholas Vradelis
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:33 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [avr-chat] Where is the best place forHI a newbie go 
> to for helpwith avrdude?
> 
> 
> 
>   HI -
> 
>       This forum looks to be above my level, but I don't know 
> where else to go at
>       this point.
>       I have a mac laptop running macosX 10.4.11, and a 
> Usbtiny programmer.  
>       I'm trying to use them to program Atmega328p 
> processors.  I've successfully 
>       programmed an Arduino bootloader using the Usbtiny and 
> a Duemilanove board, 
>       with the Arduino 0018 IDE.  Therefore I believe that my 
> hardware (up to the 
>       Atmegaxx8 target board anyway) is good. 
> 
>       I would like to move beyond the Arduino and start 
> programming with gcc and libc.  
>       I've installed avr-gcc and built a .hex file of the 
> demo program, but can't get 
>       avrdude to write to the chip.  I started with avrdude 
> 5.4, which would recognize the 
>       Usbtiny but not the m328p processor (so I tried 
> programming it as an Atmega168, 
>       but got an rc= -1 error).
>       Then I moved on to avrdude-5.5 which doesn't recognize 
> EITHER the Usbtiny OR
>       the Atmega328p.  I then moved on to avrdude-5.10 with 
> exactly the same results.
> 
>       I keep seeing references to patch files in the various 
> forums, but never with an
>       source or directions.  I looked thru the makefile in 
> the avrdude directory and it
>       looks as tho the usbtiny.c file is being included in 
> the build.  The direction pages 
>       and manuals all stop at running the configure and just 
> assume everything will be
>       fine.  
> 
>       Could someone point me to a source for low level 
> information for someone 
>       starting from scratch?
> 
>                                                   Thanks,
> 
>                                                             nav
> 
> 
> 
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