AVRISP MKII doesn't work with AVRDUDE on Linux

Question

The system sees something is plugged in when I plug and unplug it:

bluehat@Matapan:/dev$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Mar 23 15:36:35 Matapan kernel: [156082.1128         


        

Answer 1

It turns out that Ubuntu will acknowledge that the object is there but not play nicely with it until you fix up some of your udev rules. Thanks to http://steve.kargs.net/bacnet/avr-isp-mkii-on-ubuntu-hardy/ which provided files that only needed a little updating.

Create new file /etc/udev/avrisp.rules

SUBSYSTEM!="usb", ACTION!="add", GOTO="avrisp_end"

# Atmel Corp. JTAG ICE mkII
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2103", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
# Atmel Corp. AVRISP mkII
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2104", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
# Atmel Corp. Dragon
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2107", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"

LABEL="avrisp_end"

Now create a virtual link to the file and give it a rule priority

cd /etc/udev/rules.d
sudo ln ../avrisp.rules 60-avrisp.rules

Check you're in the dialout group

groups

Restart udev

sudo service udev restart

Hooray!