Re: [avr-chat] Reprise: AVR Studio under VirtualBox, anyone?

2009-04-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Graham Davies wrote: I started this discussion thread about a month ago. My problem was that connections with debuggers from AVR Studio running in VirtualBox was flakey and unreliable. The conclusion was that I should try GNU/Linux as the VirtualBox host operating system, rather than

Re: [avr-chat] Reprise: AVR Studio under VirtualBox, anyone?

2009-04-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:56:01 -0400 Graham Davies ecros...@ecrostech.com wrote: Hi Graham, Installing GNU/Linux - I chose Xubuntu 8.10. I think some of your problems could have been avoided by using the regular/Gnome version of Ubuntu, as Gnome comes with tools that

Re: [avr-chat] Avrdude and JTAG / Dragon...

2009-03-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:23:27 -0500 Graham Davies ecros...@ecrostech.com wrote: I think if this was a problem it would have surfaced (a pun?) by now. That's not good enough an argument ;-) Cars are crap and cause loads of problems... but people don't even bother

Re: [avr-chat] Avrdude and JTAG / Dragon...

2009-03-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Robert L Cochran wrote: If you know the motherboard number, look it up on the manufacturers web site. They often have a 10-pin header on the motherboard for connecting an rs-232 connector and parallel port. How does a 10-pin motherboard header translate to a 25 pin parallel port?

Re: [avr-chat] GUI wrapper for avrdude

2007-08-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:55:27 +0200 Juergen Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am passing some quiet vacation afternoons, dreaming. Has a GUI wrapper for avrdude already been considered? Have a look at www.sourceforge.net and use the search box at the top. Searching

Re: [avr-chat] AVRs in South Africa?

2007-07-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Rodney Arne Karlsen wrote: Hi all Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I'm kinda at my wits end. I am trying to find somewhere in South Africa, preferably in Durban, to get Atmel AVRs in a PDIP package. I contacted Arrow Altech and they only had surface mount, and EBV wanted me to buy a

Re: [avr-chat] TCP/IP : practical guide to implementing ? (LONG post...)

2007-06-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: Hello list, I apologize in advance for the longer than normally accepted post... I am back on the list, after a very long while off, due to my hobby AVR project stalling... so first of all, hi to the few who may remember me and are still on the list ;-) I would like

Re: [avr-chat] AVR-ISP repair - the saga continues..

2007-03-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Andy Warner wrote: I'm following up on Russell's suggestion to try a Mega8535 in 90S8535 compatibility mode as a repair for my fried AVRISPs. Since I have 2 broken units, can anyone download and share known working code for both the 8535 and the 1200 on the card ? To do this, you need to add

Re: [avr-chat] AVR ISP and/or AT90LS8535 questions.

2007-03-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Andy Warner wrote: I've finally broken the last of my cheapo AVR ISP (RS232) programmers. I'm fairly sure I fried the AT90LS8535, by hotplugging it into a target board by mistake one too many times. I used to just buy another; they were cheap enough. Alas, no longer, because they're obsolete,

Re: [avr-chat] Simple endianess question

2006-04-16 Thread Russell Shaw
David Kelly wrote: On Apr 16, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Rick Mann wrote: On Apr 15, 2006, at 23:53 , Russell Shaw wrote: it is the same as foo 4095. If endian mattered, you'd have to change every number in your program to compile it on a different endian machine. Yes, of course. It makes sense

Re: [avr-chat] AVCC / JTAG oddity

2006-03-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Gary Douglas wrote: Hi all, Just got a new board in, and it's behaving strangely. It's and ATMEGA64 design, but is not usign the A to D. I've connected AVCC to +5 observing all of the regular precautions (bypass cap...). When AVCC is connected The unit cannot be programmed via JTAG (JTAGICE

Re: [avr-chat] Mega128/jtagice problem.

2005-07-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Andy Warner wrote: I have a project based on the mega128, and I'm having strange problems when I use the jtag port for programming. The summary is that it doesn't seem to come out of reset correctly after programming, but the part is programmed correctly and if I then manually cause a reset or