Yes, the green led comes on, and the red led flashes momentarily when the command is issued. Also I'm using the jumper to power the target board, and running it as root.
I've tried this on Ubuntu 10.x and 9.x with pretty much the same results. I think the problem is that the USBtiny doesn't show up as a device node under /dev for some reason. I've tried playing with udev rules to make it show up and then specifying that node in the command, but that doesn't work either.
I'm wondering if my programmer is busted. I don't see any soldering problems, but I might have messed up something there. Dunno.
I'm trying to program a Pololu Baby Orangutan with this, maybe I should get their programmer?
Thanks
Joe