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Hi!
I am sittin'g in front of my computer for several hours and trying to upload program from my Arduino Duemilanove to my cheaper processor attiny85-20pu but it's not happening. I have wired the cables accord schematics on http://hlt.media.mit.edu/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ArduinoATtiny4585 . I hope i've done everything correctly but still i've got an error report. It says: "avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x15". I ve got 2 of those processors and  not even one of them is working. I don't know what am i doing wrong. I use arduino 0022. I am uploading ArduinoISP first on my processor ATMEGA328P and after that i am allways picking "tools -> Board -> ATtiny85 (w/ Arduino as ISP)" and upload  "modified" blink-ing. I don't know what is wrong please take a look at it and help!!!! I am literaly begging...thank you very much for any advice.

[Reply #1 on:]

And after loading the ArduinoISP you disabled reset so it won't reset when you load the ATtiny85 sketch?

It's right there in the toutorial - oh wait! - it's not! Just a small omission that has caused, and will cause, hours of frustration for those not in on the secret.

See . . .
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/DisablingAutoResetOnSerialConnection

[Reply #2 on:]

OK. I've tried this method also but there will pop-up another problem. I will describe you my whole procedure.  I take my arduino, taking pin 13 on pin 7 on ATtiny (SCK: ATtiny Pin 2), pin 12 on pin 6 (MISO: ATtiny Pin 1), pin 11 on 5 (MOSI: Arduino Pin 0) and last one pin 10 on pin 1 (reset). Fine, after that i attach power and ground and at last on your advice, I've attached 120ohm resistor betwen +5V and reset. And than it will show another mistake.

avrdude: please define PAGEL and BS2 signals in the configuration file for part ATtiny85
avrdude: Yikes!  Invalid device signature.
         Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
         this check.

I don't have any idea what am I doing wrong. Thanks for any advice.

[Reply #3 on:]

I suggest you download winavr here:
http://winavr.sourceforge.net/index.html

then try uploading using avrdude. you have to use commandline... you can find many tutorials for this, like this one:
http://jimsmindtank.com/using-the-arduinoisp-sketch-part-2/

post what happens after that step

[Reply #4 on:]

It works perfectly, thanks. I tried one more time the thing with resistor and it worked also. The problem was that i had about 1 meter long cable and put the resistor behind it. When i've done it it showed the errors. But when i plugged directly on arduino it worked. Maybe capacitance and resistance done its thing maybe not. Anyway it works perfectly both way. Thank you very much.