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Title: Linux user having problems
Post by: epicbattle on November 10, 2008, 11:25:42 PM

Ok, I'm using KontrollerLab through Ubuntu and I have avrdude. I cannot figure out how to tell the computer where the programmer is in the computer. Wine AVR Studio keeps crashing. Is anyone familiar with Linux I can start a dialog with to help me get everything to work? I am new to Linux and robot building so I am trying to get adjusted to both.  Thanks guys.

Title: Re: Linux user having problems
Post by: Half Shell on November 10, 2008, 11:34:01 PM

You need to answer this question first - is the programmer a USB, Serial, or Parallel programmer?

If it is USB, the programmer is at /dev/ttyUSB#, where # is the USB port (starts at 0).

If it is Serial, then it is /dev/ttyS# (once again, starts at 0)

Parallel - not too sure. Never had a computer with a parallel port in the past.... bajlilion years. I'm sure it's something like ttyP#.

Title: Re: Linux user having problems
Post by: Commanderbob on November 11, 2008, 02:15:08 PM

I am on Ubuntu as well and use avrdude. I have not used kontrollerlab but with avrdude you can use something like

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avrdude -c avrispmkII -P usb -p m644 -U prog.hex
to program prog.hex into a ATmega644 with an AVRISP mkII.

If you are having problems try

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sudo avrdude -c avrispmkII -P usb -p m644 -U prog.hex
if that works then go to this thread and fix the permissions of the AVRISP mkII so you can use it as a regular user.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=901891 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=901891)

You will need to make a the file 45-avr.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d. Then add this to it.

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# Atmel AVRISP mkII rules

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03eb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2104", GROUP="flip", MODE="0660"
You can also add

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# Atmel JTAGICE mkII rules

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03eb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2103", GROUP="flip", MODE="0660"
If you have a JTAGICE mkII.

This took me a long time to figure out so feel free to ask questions.

I use make to compile and burn the code onto the AVR. If you want an example makefile I can post it. They are set up so I can type

make
to compile the code and

make install
to flash the code onto the AVR

Justin