AVR Pocket Programmer not working in Windows 11

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I recently moved everything from a Win 10 laptop to a new HP Win 11 machine. Seems Win 11 has some documented “issues” with USB ports. I’m wondering if this is one of these?

I can’t get my AVR Pocket Programmer to work (ATMEGA 328 is my current target). It writes the fuses OK, but after seemingly writing the flash, I get:

"Writing | #################################################

avrdude.exe: error: usbtiny_send: (expected 128, got -116)"

The same setup works when I plug into my old (SLOW!) laptop.

Can anyone verify this as an issue, and is there a fix? It’s really painful to be writing and compiling code on my new machine and having to transfer the hex files to my old machine just to burn them to the chip.

HELP!

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It looks like the driver software has not been updated for windows 11. https://github.com/sparkfun/Pocket_AVR_ … er/Drivers

Had there been any update, windows 11 would have been mentioned in the documentation. But there is no mention of it. I don’t think there is anything to do but wait for a windows 11 compatible driver software. Let’s see if anybody suggests any trick.

In the meantime, if you are eager to make an AVR programmer of your own, you can take a look here:

https://www.pcbway.com/project/sharepro … 33bbb.html