AVR-Chat

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:00:09AM -0600, Kevin wrote:

>    That is what I do now - My Mac is WAY superior when I'm on the road,
> and I do all my electronic CAD there, multimedia, etc.  I have to use a
> Windoze box to work with my PIC and AVR tools - I'm trying to get it all
> with one box and being widely frustrated with the total lack of value
> encompased in the Virtual PC program.  Sadly, I prolly can't get my
> money back on that worthless POS...  BUT if I can get AVRDUDE working on
> the OSX platform then I'm halfway there!

I use a handful of Keyspan USA-19HS adapters and they work great.  I
got mine for about $30 or so at CompUSA but I've seen them other
places as well.  I can guarantee that AVRDUDE works with these
natively on MacOS X both Panther & Tiger :-)

Note that these don't work very well on Virtual PC.  I tried to use
one there with AVR Studio and the Windows driver under Virtual PC kept
cycling the device.  I use a different device for that which is an
IOGEAR GUC232A.  This one works fine under Virtual PC on MacOS X and I
have used it to upgrade the flash my STK500 and my ECROS JTAG IceCube.

-Brian
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Brian Dean
ATmega128 based MAVRIC controllers
http://www.bdmicro.com/