AVR-Chat

OK, perhaps I didn't explain my problem sufficiently.   I can neither 
read data from the on board 8515, nor write data to it (in either 
program mode or control mode. I cannot read the fuses or lock bits, for 
example, nor can I program or otherwise write to the device on the STK-500.

   When I try I get a failure dialogue box that includes a long winded 
"hint" to check the clock frequency on the processor being targetted.  
Since I can neither read nor write to the processor, how in hell do I do 
this?

  The Switches and LEDs demonstration program which comes burned into 
the 8515 runs just fine.


   So what am, I doing wrong? Nothing in the STK-500 User Guide has helped,

Tom