Re: [avr-chat] AVRISP mkII on Mac OSX

[Ned Konz]

On Feb 12, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Chris Pontiga wrote:

> 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.
Are you sure that the configure found libusb? I had to delete the  
configure.cache first (and make sure that I added the lib directory  
containing libusb to the configure switches).

You can check to see if the program wants to load libusb using otool:

neds_mini:~ ned$ otool -l /sw/bin/avarice | grep -i usb
         name /sw/lib/libusb-0.1.4.dylib (offset 24)

neds_mini:~ ned$ otool -l /sw/bin/avrdude | grep -i usb

So my build of avrdude doesn't use libusb, but my avarice does.

> 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?

Well, I and others have tried the ATJTAGEICE mkII (which luckily also  
has a serial port) with Avarice and libusb, and it tends to hang  
pretty quickly, or just aborts. Looks like it wants to work, though.

Unfortunately, the ATAVRISP mkII doesn't have a serial port.

> 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!!

It would be great if you could get libusb to work with these tools! I  
reported the problems with libusb and avarice to the avarice-user  
list, but no one has attacked the problem that I know of.

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Ned Konz
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