Gene Heskett wrote: > A warning to others, a "sudo apt install avrdude" did a just barely > announced reboot of my machine, and it has taken me nomonally half an > hour to restore everything that had x jerked out from under it. It > killed x before it announced it on a text screen. The reboot was, shall > we say, messy. No /var/run/locks were removed, so kmail had a cow when > it was restarted. > > That was on my stretch system, it did not repeat on a buster install. But > no TDE is in use there either. >
You've still not updated this stretch of yours - shame on you! > This device, a usb dongle labeled "USB ISP version 2.0" is apparently not > well supported by avrdude. And unforch, the ATmel address in the man > page is now re-directed to a Microchip site, ATmel I assume having since > been bought by microchip, the product listing on that web page does not > include the ATmega1284p, and while an option "-c usbtiny" gets a device > listing that includes the ATmega1284p, this isn't a usbtiny. I am > guessing from the instructions that this dongle has a memory area where > the patches for marlin, the printers rs-274d driver, are kept, accessed > and uploaded to the flash in the printers controller. But thats a WAG. > > I'll email the author by cc'ing, maybe he can help. > > Anybody have a better idea? I use mySmartUsb light (~16,-) with the avrdude and with a self soldiered Atmel programmer board for ~12,-, but knowing your skills and context, I am sure you need only the USB stick.
