title: AVR ISP MKII, avrdude, Ubuntu 11.10
body: <p>So, I have had this working on Ubuntu before. But then I upgraded to 11.10. Now, no such luck. </p>
  
  <p>Note: if you are still messing with getting this to work on eclipse, you might want to try this command line stuff... if it doesnt work here, its not going to work in eclipse. </p>
  
  <p>I have this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>avrdude: stk500v2_command(): command failed
  avrdude: stk500v2_command(): unknown status 0xc9
  avrdude: stk500v2_program_enable(): cannot get connection status
  avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
       Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
       this check.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried with all different configurations. 
  ie: -B 1 ,10, 1000,</p>
  
  <p>-F doesn't help becuase then you just get back 000000 or whatever as your serial. 
  Also, I should mention, clearly from the output below, you can see that it gets to the programmer and even to the target board and reads its voltage out. 
  You can also see the target chip reset. (ie: i have tested on a number of devices includeing a DB101 and you can see when it resets)</p>
  
  <p>The full output is like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; avrdude -c avrispmkII -P usb -p m1281 -B 100 -v
  
  avrdude: Version 5.10, compiled on Jun 29 2010 at 03:44:14
       Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
       Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
  
       System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
       User configuration file is "/home/david/.avrduderc"
       User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
  
       Using Port                    : usb
       Using Programmer              : avrispmkII
       Setting bit clk period        : 100.0
  avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found AVRISP mkII, serno: 000200037289
       AVR Part                      : ATMEGA1281
       Chip Erase delay              : 9000 us
       PAGEL                         : PD7
       BS2                           : PA0
       RESET disposition             : dedicated
       RETRY pulse                   : SCK
       serial program mode           : yes
       parallel program mode         : yes
       Timeout                       : 200
       StabDelay                     : 100
       CmdexeDelay                   : 25
       SyncLoops                     : 32
       ByteDelay                     : 0
       PollIndex                     : 3
       PollValue                     : 0x53
       Memory Detail                 :
  
                                Block Poll               Page                       Polled
         Memory Type Mode Delay Size  Indx Paged  Size   Size #Pages MinW  MaxW   ReadBack
         ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
         eeprom        65    10     8    0 no       4096    8      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
         flash         65    10   256    0 yes    131072  256    512  4500  4500 0x00 0x00
         lfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
         hfuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
         efuse          0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
         lock           0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0  9000  9000 0x00 0x00
         calibration    0     0     0    0 no          1    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
         signature      0     0     0    0 no          3    0      0     0     0 0x00 0x00
  
       Programmer Type : STK500V2
       Description     : Atmel AVR ISP mkII
       Programmer Model: AVRISP mkII
       Hardware Version: 1
       Firmware Version Master : 1.13
       Vtarget         : 5.1 V
       SCK period      : 100.37 us
  
  avrdude: stk500v2_command(): command failed
  avrdude: stk500v2_command(): unknown status 0xc9
  avrdude: stk500v2_program_enable(): cannot get connection status
  avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
       Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
       this check.
  
  
  avrdude done.  Thank you.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I already have the udev stuff set up:
  ie:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>cat /etc/udev/rules.d/60-avrisp.rules 
        SUBSYSTEM!="usb_device", ACTION!="add", GOTO="avrisp_end"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code># Atmel Corp. JTAG ICE mkII
  ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2103", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
  
  # Atmel Corp. AVRISP mkII
  ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2104", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
  
  # Atmel Corp. Dragon
  ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2107", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
  
  LABEL="avrisp_end"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The board AND the programmer work with AVR studio on another machine. 
  Apparently a lot of people have this issue on Linux. :(
  Dont really want to have to dig up a winblows box. </p>