RE: [avr-chat] timeout error on STK500

[Weddington, Eric]

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>  On Behalf Of Irving Ruan
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:51 PM
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> Subject: [avr-chat] timeout error on STK500
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> After getting some things set up, I wrote some test code and 
> assembled it to Intel Hex so I could write it to flash on my 
> STK500. Unfortunately, I've been receiving these 
> ReceiveMessage() timeout errors and did some research online 
> but I honestly think the USB/RS-232 adapter is the culprit 
> (from what I've heard, it doesn't work too well with AVRDUDE).
> 
> This is what I'm typing to verify that my STK500 is 
> interfaced correctly: avrdude \-c stk500v2 \-p m324p \-P 
> /dev/ttyUSB1 and this is what I receive:

Are you actually typing the backslashes (above) on the command line?