that doesn’t seem to work for me, I can barely read out flash from an atmega32 without any timeouts. I just got it working once out of 50 times and haven’t even checked if the image is correct. Even reading the device id correctly, doesn’t work all the time, sometimes one byte is corrupt.

No luck with writing to an controller either. I used the pins as described in here and SCK from the ICSP pins on the arduino ng board. No positive results either.

So, I tried to get that running for hours now and others failed too, so better safe your time and get a different programmer.

I followed the instructions (almost) exactly and received this error: “Direct Parallel Access not defined”

The usb device does show up because more /proc/bus/usb/devices shows an entry for Vendor=0403 ProdID=6001…

I tried the following command with both the uisp in tools directory of arduino-0007 and a patched uisp that I compiled myself following the directions given on tuxgraphics.org:

/home/david/Desktop/arduino-0005/tools# uisp -dpart=ATmega8 -dprog=stk500v2 -dserial=”/dev/ttyUSB0″ -dspeed=115200 –erase –upload if=avrusb500.hex -v

if I change -dprog to stk500, the error changes to “Programmer is not responding.”

I’m trying to use the bitbang method, is this even the right approach?

I am new to this and if you spot something I’m doing wrong I would be much appreciative. I have also tried to build three different parallel port programmers with no luck. I’m about ready to buy a programmer lol.

Regards,

Bryan