Re: looks like I need an hid interface

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

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.