Bit of a newbie question. I have a atmega 16 micro and using a dontronics avr jtag l dongle. Trouble im having is getting studio 4 to recognise it. I believe it is the cable as i have tested the hardware on another computer and it works.
I bought a "of the shelf" usb to serial cable but avr studio 4 will not pick it up.
I was wondering do i need a specialty cable.
Would you point me in the right direction or if there is related posts
The hardware works arv jtag, micro board is getting power and my computer is picking up the usb serial cable, in device manager. But when i go to select the corresponding com porti get the sad face error.
What is a "sad face error"? Does it come with an error message? What is your operating system?
Sounds like you are running Avr Studio on a Mac with a virtual machine running some kind of windows. If that is the case, I think the problem is in the virtual machine.