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**Burning the Firmware on the USBasp Programmer**
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With the command line tool [[http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/|AVRdude]] one can burn the firmware on the Atmega8 chip.\\
Download the firmware from: [[http://www.fischl.de/usbasp/]]. And read the [[http://www.fischl.de/usbasp/Readme.txt|Readme.txt]].\\

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**Workaround on Linux**

1. Erase:\\
  $ sudo avrdude  -p atmega8 -c stk500v2 -P /dev/ttyACM0 -e
2. Set Fusebits\\
  $ sudo avrdude  -p atmega8 -c stk500v2 -P /dev/ttyACM0 -U HFUSE=0xc9
  $ sudo avrdude  -p atmega8 -c stk500v2 -P /dev/ttyACM0 -U LFUSE=0xef
3. Burn the Hex File:\\
  $ sudo avrdude  -p atmega8 -c stk500v2 -P /dev/ttyACM0 -b115200 -U flash:w:usbasp.atmega8.2011-05-28.hex:i

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