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: [156082.112874] usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
Mar 23 15:47:19 Matapan kernel: [156726.248081] usb 7-1: USB disconnect, address 6
Mar 23 15:47:29 Matapan kernel: [156736.200148] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3

AVRISP MKII should rely on cdc-acm:

bluehat@Matapan:/dev$ modinfo cdc-acm -V
module-init-tools version 3.12

So it should be able to see it just fine, and yet I am unable to write to it.

avrdude -p m1280 -c avrispmkII -P usb -U test.hex

Returns

avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read serial number "error sending control message: Operation not permitted"
avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read product name "error sending control message: Operation not permitted"
avrdude: usbdev_open(): error setting configuration 1: could not set config 1: Operation not permitted
avrdude: usbdev_open(): did not find any USB device "usb"

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!

Answer 2

For Ubuntu 12.04, there's a minor change that must be carried out to the configuration that Katy posted:

All occurrences of SYSFS should be replaced with ATTR

Additionally, if you're still having problems, make sure you have installed all the required dependent libraries. I found that I had to install the uisp package as well.

If restarting udev doesn't make a difference, unplugging the programmer and plugging it in back in does.

Answer 3

Updated rule that works for 13.10:

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"

Based on previous posts about changes.

Answer 4

Seems they changed it again in 12.10
The Subsystem is now "usb"

I found a command which shows what you need. For that you just need to know the Bus and Device number from the plugged device (use lsusb)

Bus 003 Device 010: ID 03eb: lsusb

So my Bus number from the isp is 003 and Device is 010 (edit the end /003/010 to your needs)

udevadm info --attribute-walk --name=bus/usb/003/010

shows among many other things

SUBSYSTEM=="usb"

ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb"

ATTR{idProduct}=="2104"

Replace/change the created rule above and everything should work

If there are other Problems the Command will show them to you, it checks the rules (found a typo that way :)) If there is no error it won't show anything (Didn't realise for some time)