Trouble with AVR-ISP500 on Mac

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I am having a problem with using the AVR-ISP500 (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/produc … ts_id=8702) on a MacBook Pro. On the site http://www.olimex.com/dev/avr-isp500.html, it states that it should work under Mac OS X. But I’ve installed all the latest relevant software (libusb-0.1.12-1013, avrdude-5.5-1, etc.) under Fink, and when I run the command:

avrdude -v -c stk500v2 -p m168 -P usb

I get the following error:

avrdude: Version 5.5, compiled on Jan 24 2009 at 19:51:49

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

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

User configuration file is “/Users/marek/.avrduderc”

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

Using Port : usb

Using Programmer : stk500v2

avrdude: usbdev_open(): did not find any USB device “usb”

In the System Profiler, I have the following information on the programmer:

Olimex AVR-ISP500:

Product ID: 0x000c

Vendor ID: 0x15ba

Version: 1.02

Serial Number: OL2252D00011467

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Olimex Ltd.

Location ID: 0x3d100000

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 100

I’d appreciate any advice on how to get this working. Thank you!

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Not sure if you’re still having trouble with this, but I think your problem is obviously -P usb. Go to the /dev dircetory and ls | grep serial. You should find something like tty.usbserial…, that’s your port. Change USB to whatever is there, i.e.:

-P usb

…

-P tty.usbserial.m128-001

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It turns out that the original firmware wasn’t working properly on the Mac, and that’s why it wasn’t showing up as a serial device (e.g. /dev/tty.*). I got in touch with the helpful Olimex people, and they’ve updated the firmware – it’s now available on their web site. Unfortunately it requires a PC to update it, but now the device shows up on my Mac.

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are still being sold? Because I have that programmer, I have a Mac, I’m getting no luck. And I don’t have a PC. Do I send the programmer back to SparkFun for updating?

And if so, I’m ticked off. My time is worth something, that’s why I bought this instead of a USBtinyISP kit.