I'd like to work with the AVRcam from my laptop which has USB, but no serial or parallel ports.
My desktop has a serial port, but no parallel port.
I've got an STK300 cable, one end fits into the AVRcam, but I don't have a place to plug in the other end, yet. So I haven't tried to download version 1.4 to my camera yet.
The desktop only runs Linux, the laptop can dualboot WIndows XP or Linux. I prefer Linux.
Does it all "just work" with whatever USB serial and parallel port adapters happen to be cheapest, or do I need to get the right make and model?
Note, I did try to compile and link version 1.4 on Debian Unstable version, 1:3.4.3-1 of gcc-avr, which is based on avr-gcc 3.4.3 and avr-libc version 1:1.0.5-1. The file /usr/avr/include/avr/sleep.h from avr-libc is missing a couple semicolons in the definition of the set_sleep_mode() macro. Fixing that problem lets me compile avrcam-1.4.
I can't link it quite yet. binutils-avr version 2.15-1 doesn't seem to include the right version of avr-objcopy. Or at least it can't parse the command line correctly. What version of avr-objcopy do you use on WIndows? I suspect I'll be fine if I just build the right version of avr-objcopy.