avrdude: error: programm enable: target doesn't answer. 1
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.
When I try to program my arduino pro mini with this USBasp all works fine. My arduino software is 1.6.5, the tiny hardware for arduino is "arduino-tiny-0150-0020". I tried 3 attiny85. I used eigher attiny@1MHZ 8MHZ and 16MhZ.
What I can test? Do you need more info to help? See also my attachment.
Try checking your wiring again. I get the same message when I have my 6 pin ISP plug connected backwards. You can check your vcc , ground and reset with a led tied to a resistor or use a DVM. My reset reads around 4 volts using a cheap DVM. Using a led with a 220 ohm resistor I get a bright light between 5V and ground and a dimmer light between ground and reset.
You may have to get some help from one of the guys who know what they are doing.
again I used my digital voltmeter to check the wiring. Connected to USB I get 3.28 V between vcc and gnd. And I checked also MISO MOSI SCK and RESET. There is no short circuit and all wires are connected correctly.
When I switch the USBasp to 5V I get 4.80 V. But both don't work.
I also own an USB FTDI232. Maybe I can try this? But I can't find the wiring plan for this."
Yesterday I wired up the circuit from this link and was able to load bootloader @8Mhz and then loaded a Morse code sketch I copied from the forum. As long as I left the 10K resistor in the circuit everything worked. When I pulled it out of the circuit, I got the same error message as you are getting .
Please try it using 5V on the usbasp. Mine doesn't work on 3.3V.
If your wiring to the isp 10 pin connector matches the wiring to the Usbasp 10 pin plug I am out of ideas.
You can Google how to bit-bang an attiny85 using a FtdI232, but I think you still have something basically wrong with your wiring.
I had this same problem using a USBASP and the Arduino IDE to program an ATTiny85.
The solution for me was two-fold :
Short J3 to make the USBASP run slower (blank ATTINY85's default to 1Mhz internal clock and you have to slow down the USBASP)
Use Zadig to install the libusbK drivers (not the libusb drivers - these looked like they worked but gave the error in this post - the libusbK drivers worked just fine)
