I have had problems with this programming board. It is set up correctly seems to be an AVRISP MKII.
I received the following error messages upon flashing with avrdude:
(trusty)chandran@localhost:~$ avrdude -c avrispmkii -p t85 -vv
avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Oct 21 2013 at 15:55:32
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, h ttp://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf"
User configuration file is "/home/chandran/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
Using Port : usb
Using Programmer : avrispmkii
avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read serial number "error sending control
message: Connection timed out"
avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found AVRISP mkII, serno: [unknown]
avrdude: usbdev_recv_frame(): usb_bulk_read(): error submitting URB: No
such file or directory
avrdude: stk500v2_recv_mk2: error in USB receive
avrdude: usbdev_recv_frame(): usb_bulk_read(): error submitting URB: No such file or directory
avrdude: stk500v2_recv_mk2: error in USB receive
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer
AVR Part : ATtiny85
Chip Erase delay : 4500 us
PAGEL : P00
BS2 : P00
RESET disposition : possible i/o
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 6 4 0 no 512 4 0 4000 4500 0xff 0xff
flash 65 6 32 0 yes 8192 64 128 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 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
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 2 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
Programmer Type : STK500V2
Description : Atmel AVR ISP mkII
Programmer Model: AVRISP mkII
avrdude: usbdev_recv_frame(): usb_bulk_read(): error submitting URB: No such file or directory
It is hard to identify the issue since my version of the programming board doesn't have such great documentation.
Thanks in advance!
This bug was causing the problems. I simply reverted to the previous version of avrdude (5.11.1) and it worked. By now there is an even newer version of avrdude (6.3), this bug might no longer be a problem in latest version.
Here are some steps:
sudo apt-get install <package-name>=<package-version-number> OR sudo apt-get install <package-name>=<package-version-number>avrdude -p <your part name> -c <your programmer name (avrispmkII)>You might have to specify a port. Use something like ''watch ls /dev/tty*'' to find your device if you get an error like this one:
(trusty)chandran@localhost:~$ avrdude -c avrispmkII -p t85
avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "/dev/ttyS0": No such file or directory
avrdude done. Thank you.
Here is what it will look like when you get it right:
(trusty)chandran@localhost:~$ avrdude -c avrispmkII -p t85 -P usb -vv
avrdude: Version 5.11.1, compiled on Oct 30 2011 at 10:37:28
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/chandran/.avrduderc"
User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping
Using Port : usb
Using Programmer : avrispmkII
avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read serial number "No error"
avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found AVRISP mkII, serno: [unknown]
avrdude: usbdev_open(): using read endpoint 0x83
AVR Part : ATtiny85
Chip Erase delay : 4500 us
PAGEL : P00
BS2 : P00
RESET disposition : possible i/o
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 6 4 0 no 512 4 0 4000 4500 0xff 0xff
flash 65 6 32 0 yes 8192 64 128 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 9000 9000 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
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 2 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
Programmer Type : STK500V2
Description : Atmel AVR ISP mkII
Programmer Model: AVRISP mkII
Hardware Version: 0
Firmware Version Master : 1.255
Vtarget : 3.3 V
SCK period : 8.00 us
avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s
avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e930b
avrdude: safemode: lfuse reads as 62
avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as DF
avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as FF
avrdude: safemode: lfuse reads as 62
avrdude: safemode: hfuse reads as DF
avrdude: safemode: efuse reads as FF
avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK
avrdude done. Thank you.
If this doesn't fix your problem, you might want to look at some other solutions: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/78302/avrisp-mkii-not-reading-device-signature/189488
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/67757/why-does-my-avrisp-mkii-programmer-not-work
AVRISP MKII doesn't work with AVRDUDE on Linux
Good luck!