| | 1 | Here I try to collect some information about flashing new firmware onto the FSC board. While the FSC has been built to be Arduino-compatible, we never really managed to install the well known Arduino bootloader onto the FSC. So the firmware can't be installed via USB, but needs to be programmed via the ISP port using an external ISP programmer like the one shown in the picture below. This is an original "AVR ISP mkII", but others should work as well. |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | == The AVR ISP mkII on Ubuntu == |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | Check if the USB connection works. Leave the programmer unplugged from the board to be programmed, but connect it to your PC via USB. You should see it, when typing **lsusb** in a terminal, e.g. like this: |
| | 6 | {{{ |
| | 7 | Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub |
| | 8 | Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub |
| | 9 | Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub |
| | 10 | Bus 006 Device 007: ID 03eb:2104 Atmel Corp. AVR ISP mkII <--- this is it. |
| | 11 | Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub |
| | 12 | }}} |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | In order to speak to the programmer, the program called **avrdude** is needed. It can be simply installed by |
| | 15 | {{{ |
| | 16 | sudo apt-get install avrdude |
| | 17 | }}} |
| | 18 | |
| | 19 | We can check, if avrdude can talk to the programmer, even before the programmer is connected to the board, by typing: |
| | 20 | {{{ |
| | 21 | avrdude -p m328 -c avrispmkII -P usb -v |
| | 22 | }}} |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | Here the -p parameter, specifies the type of the microcontroller (MCU) we want to program, since we actually don't want to program any MCU right now, but just check, if we can talk to the programmer, this parameter doesn't matter. However this parameter is not optional. |
| | 25 | The -c parameter specifies the type of programmer, we want to use and -P specifies the port, we connnected the programmer to. (Luckily specifying 'usb' is enough and we don't have to specify the bus and device number). |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | The ouput might look like this: |
| | 28 | {{{dneise@NeiseLenovo:~$ avrdude -p m328 -c avrispmkII -P usb -v |
| | 29 | |
| | 30 | avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Oct 21 2013 at 15:55:32 |
| | 31 | Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/ |
| | 32 | Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch |
| | 33 | |
| | 34 | System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf" |
| | 35 | User configuration file is "/home/dneise/.avrduderc" |
| | 36 | User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | Using Port : usb |
| | 39 | Using Programmer : avrispmkII |
| | 40 | avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read serial number "error sending control message: Operation not permitted" |
| | 41 | avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read product name "error sending control message: Operation not permitted" |
| | 42 | avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found [unnamed product], serno: [unknown] |
| | 43 | avrdude: usbdev_open(): error setting configuration 1: could not set config 1: Operation not permitted |
| | 44 | avrdude: usbdev_open(): did not find any USB device "usb" |
| | 45 | }}} |
| | 46 | |
| | 47 | The problem here is, that your user does not have access rights for this USB device. We solve this quickly by putting **sudo** in front of the command. Also we add the **-v** option in order to get more information |
| | 48 | {{{ |
| | 49 | dneise@NeiseLenovo:~$ sudo avrdude -p m328 -c avrispmkII -P usb -v |
| | 50 | |
| | 51 | avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Oct 21 2013 at 15:55:32 |
| | 52 | Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/ |
| | 53 | Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch |
| | 54 | |
| | 55 | System wide configuration file is "/etc/avrdude.conf" |
| | 56 | User configuration file is "/home/dneise/.avrduderc" |
| | 57 | User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping |
| | 58 | |
| | 59 | Using Port : usb |
| | 60 | Using Programmer : avrispmkII |
| | 61 | avrdude: usbdev_open(): Found AVRISP mkII, serno: 000200059292 |
| | 62 | AVR Part : ATmega328 |
| | 63 | Chip Erase delay : 9000 us |
| | 64 | PAGEL : PD7 |
| | 65 | BS2 : PC2 |
| | 66 | RESET disposition : dedicated |
| | 67 | RETRY pulse : SCK |
| | 68 | serial program mode : yes |
| | 69 | parallel program mode : yes |
| | 70 | Timeout : 200 |
| | 71 | StabDelay : 100 |
| | 72 | CmdexeDelay : 25 |
| | 73 | SyncLoops : 32 |
| | 74 | ByteDelay : 0 |
| | 75 | PollIndex : 3 |
| | 76 | PollValue : 0x53 |
| | 77 | Memory Detail : |
| | 78 | |
| | 79 | Block Poll Page Polled |
| | 80 | Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack |
| | 81 | ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- --------- |
| | 82 | eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff |
| | 83 | flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff |
| | 84 | lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00 |
| | 85 | hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00 |
| | 86 | efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00 |
| | 87 | lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00 |
| | 88 | calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00 |
| | 89 | signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00 |
| | 90 | |
| | 91 | Programmer Type : STK500V2 |
| | 92 | Description : Atmel AVR ISP mkII |
| | 93 | Programmer Model: AVRISP mkII |
| | 94 | Hardware Version: 1 |
| | 95 | Firmware Version Master : 1.13 |
| | 96 | Vtarget : 0.0 V |
| | 97 | SCK period : 0.50 us |
| | 98 | |
| | 99 | avrdude: stk500v2_command(): command failed |
| | 100 | avrdude: stk500v2_program_enable(): bad AVRISPmkII connection status: Target not detected |
| | 101 | avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1 |
| | 102 | Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override |
| | 103 | this check. |
| | 104 | |
| | 105 | |
| | 106 | avrdude done. Thank you. |
| | 107 | |
| | 108 | }}} |
| | 109 | |
| | 110 | As we see, the guy called avrdude, is pretty polite. |
