well got my usb to serial port converter few days back….initially it gava a lot of problems but somehow managed to make it work
assuming that you have the driver for your cable ..lets get started
the problem that is faced by me is that the ports that ponyprog was showing was COM3 and COM4 but hey were occupied by some other applications and the device manager showed that my serial port adapter is on COM5
so here is what i did(rather say what soumen and me did)
1. Go to the device manager by right clicking on my computer and then on properties.
2. Select port to see if your device manager is detecting your adapter or not.
3. If its not detecting it that means your driver is not installed if you don’t have the drivers seach on net…or try too know the chipset used then you can surely get the drivers( i got prolific 2303 working for me)
4. Now if its detecting it go to the properties of the adapter,then on port settings and click on advanced change the port to COM1 or COM3 if its not used
5. Restart the device manager .it will now show the port you selected..
6. Now in my case i was using pony prog…so here is what i did..
7. Attached my micro controller and calibrated it..
8. Go to device set-up and select AVR micro—->at mega 16 (as i have this board).
9. Now select security and configure. bits from the above menu and check CK OPT,BOOT SZ0, BOOT S 71
10. That’s all we did…………..time to burn the code press ctrl+w
ps: well it takes a hell lot of time to burn the code ……abort the verify operation as it takes a lot of time and always gives an error…its not a big deal as our code was working perfectly even after aborting verify
feel free to add and comment on it…………
