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I am having  the worst time these days with my being able to program any of the AVR devices I am currently working with, and it is driving me nutz! I usually use the AVRISP dongle provided with the STK300 dev board by Kanda. The device is really outdated and has many flaws from what I have gathered just from checking out the forums and my own crappy experiences, so I just finished building one of the updated versions posted on the AVRFreaks site. The design I opted for was the 'even_better_pppd_mod_March4_2006' which includes many resisitors and decoup caps on the signal lines, etc...Anyways, I just tried using it via AVRStudio, no luck still, it just doesn't seem to read anything on the port(LPT). I also have WINAVR and tried via AVRDude, but the software doesn't seem to support the device hooked up(Tiny45)[maybe I have an old version?as I have been told it supports this device???]. Idealy I would prefer to just use AVRISP loader, but the version I have for my Kanda dongle is way too old and doesn't support half of the devices I have, including the tiny hooked up. What can I do here to get going again using my tiny45??? I have to get this device loaded and quick! No cash to buy hardware unfortunatly, so need DIY solutions today. Thanks in advance everyone!
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I would stick to using Ponyprog with a parallel programmer, I also
once had a problem with an STK200 not working due to the type of
parallel port setup in the Bios, so if all else fails, might pay to
check that youve got the parallel port set up correctly.

Cheers
Hein B
Auckland, New Zealand.

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Jay Dagenais" <jaydag71@...> wrote:
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>  I am having  the worst time these days with my being able to
program any of the AVR devices I am currently working with, and it is
driving me nutz! I usually use the AVRISP dongle provided with the
STK300 dev board by Kanda. The device is really outdated and has many
flaws from what I have gathered just from checking out the forums and
my own crappy experiences, so I just finished building one of the
updated versions posted on the AVRFreaks site. The design I opted for
was the 'even_better_pppd_mod_March4_2006' which includes many
resisitors and decoup caps on the signal lines, etc...Anyways, I just
tried using it via AVRStudio, no luck still, it just doesn't seem to
read anything on the port(LPT). I also have WINAVR and tried via
AVRDude, but the software doesn't seem to support the device hooked
up(Tiny45)[maybe I have an old version?as I have been told it supports
this device???]. Idealy I would prefer to just use AVRISP loader, but
the version I have for my Kanda dongle is way too old and doesn't
support half of the devices I have, including the tiny hooked up. What
can I do here to get going again using my tiny45??? I have to get this
device loaded and quick! No cash to buy hardware unfortunatly, so need
DIY solutions today. Thanks in advance everyone!
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