Re: [avr-gcc-list] problem with avrdude

[Remy Schleimer]

Theodore A. Roth wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Remy Schleimer wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi all,
> > I have acquired a nice MR-163 from microrobot, which comes with a nice
> > programming dongle and a board equipped with a atmega163. Unfortunately,
> > the cdrom coming along with it is Windows only, while I am Linux only.
> > So I tried avrdude (avrdude-4.1.0). But I get a "can't claim device"
> > error (see below).
> > Any idea what I am doing wrong?
> > Thanks
> > Remy
> > :
> > # avrdude -p m163 -c stk200
> > avrdude: can't claim device "/dev/lp0": Invalid argument
> >
> > # ls -l /dev/lp0
> > crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   0 2002-03-14 22:54 /dev/lp0
> >    
>
> You probably need to use "/dev/parport0" instead of "/dev/lp0".
>
> You will also need your permissions to look like this:
>
> address@hidden:~$ ls -al /dev/lp0 /dev/parport0
> crw-rw----    1 root     lp         6,   0 Jun 13  2001 /dev/lp0
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      99,   0 Oct 22  2002 /dev/parport0
>
> so that you won't have to run as root.
>
> Ted Roth
>  
Great  help, thanks a lot.
I didn't have a /dev/parport0 on my computer. After creating it, I can 
download.
Thanks a lot
Remy