[avr-chat] AVRISP mkII on Mac OSX

[Chris Pontiga]

Hi All,

I received my AVRISP mkII yesterday (finally), and I am trying to get
it set up on my Mac with AVRDUDE.  I had been using 5.0, however I
realized that the programmer-id avrisp2 was not recognized.  I then
installed 5.1 which had avrisp2 listed in avrdude.conf, but still no
luck accessing the usb.  I have tried -P usb, and -P USB,  but all I
get is:

avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "usb": No such file or directory

I read somewhere that libusb is needed, so I tried that as well.  But
then while installing 0.1.11, I received the error:

darwin.c:70:2: error: #warning "libusb being compiled for 10.3 or later"
make[1]: *** [darwin.lo] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

I am running OSX Tiger, so I guess it is not supported?  However, I
did get 0.1.10a to install successfully.  I then tried to rebuild and
install avrdude 5.1, but still no luck with the mkII.

Has anyone been successful in using any Atmel USB programmers with
avrdude in a linux/Mac OSX environment?  Am I using the -P port option
correctly with the usb? I have seen that the JTAGICE mkII is supported
in avrdude.  Is accessing the usb similar to that?

It would be great to get setup with my mkII on my Mac, and not have to
carry around the bigger clunky STK500.  Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated!!

-Chris