since I am frustrated and annoyed I thought I ask here, maybe somebody has an idea: I bought an Olimex AVR ISP MkII (came in handy to get the order volume at Mauser to avoid shipping costs), but it turns out this thing needs a firmware change to be able to be used with avrdude. Unfortunately this fails, with Win 7 and Linux (Mint 17), it is registered correctly as USB device with the right IDs, the product ID changes when I press the “flash firmware” button on the device, but no tool (Atmel flip or dfu-programmer) seems to be able to connect to the device, they both return with error messages indicating that they can’t connect. I followed the Olimex user manual, I checked various blogs and internet ressources, but no success at all.
I think I give up on that and simly buy an original atmel AVR ISP, fed up with this cheapo chinese crap, I wasted already to much time and 29€ on that thingie…
thx for any hint or idea, otherwise I bin it since I can’t use it!