Problems with AVR-ISP500

Hi,

Today I got a AVR-ISP500 programmer and a ATmega8 MCU. I followed the tutorial on this website (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutori … ials_id=93). I managed to install the GNU toolchain on Linux and compiling blink_1MHz.c using the Makefile also worked. However, I’m having problems with uploading the hex-file to the microcontroller. I use the following command.

sudo avrdude -p m8 -P /dev/ttyACM0 -c stk500v2 -vv -U flash:w:blink_1MHz.hex

The output is the following.

avrdude: Version 5.5, compiled on Feb 25 2009 at 11:47:45

Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/

System wide configuration file is “/etc/avrdude.conf”

User configuration file is “/home/yoran/.avrduderc”

User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

Using Port : /dev/ttyACM0

Using Programmer : stk500v2

AVR Part : ATMEGA8

Chip Erase delay : 10000 us

PAGEL : PD7

BS2 : PC2

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 4 20 128 0 no 512 0 0 9000 9000 0xff 0xff

flash 33 10 64 0 yes 8192 64 128 4500 4500 0xff 0x00

lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 2000 2000 0x00 0x00

hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 2000 2000 0x00 0x00

lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 2000 2000 0x00 0x00

calibration 0 0 0 0 no 4 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00

signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00

Programmer Type : STK500V2

Description : Atmel STK500 Version 2.x firmware

Programmer Model: STK500

Hardware Version: 2

Firmware Version: 2.10

Topcard : Unknown

Vtarget : 5.0 V

Varef : 5.0 V

Oscillator : 60.433 kHz

SCK period : 31.5 us

avrdude: stk500v2_command(): unknown status 0x80

avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1

Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override

this check.

avrdude done. Thank you.

I already triple-checked the connections on the connector. I read on this forum that I should try adding the argument “-B 10” but that doesn’t work either for me.

Does anyone know what the problem might be and how I can solve it?

Thank you,

Yoran