AVRISP MKII doesn't work with AVRDUDE on Linux

Question

The system sees something is plugged in when I plug and unplug it:

bluehat@Matapan:/dev$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Mar 23 15:36:35 Matapan kernel: [156082.112874] usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
Mar 23 15:47:19 Matapan kernel: [156726.248081] usb 7-1: USB disconnect, address 6
Mar 23 15:47:29 Matapan kernel: [156736.200148] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3

AVRISP MKII should rely on cdc-acm:

bluehat@Matapan:/dev$ modinfo cdc-acm -V
module-init-tools version 3.12

So it should be able to see it just fine, and yet I am unable to write to it.

avrdude -p m1280 -c avrispmkII -P usb -U test.hex

Returns

avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read serial number "error sending control message: Operation not permitted"
avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read product name "error sending control message: Operation not permitted"
avrdude: usbdev_open(): error setting configuration 1: could not set config 1: Operation not permitted
avrdude: usbdev_open(): did not find any USB device "usb"

Answer 1

It turns out that Ubuntu will acknowledge that the object is there but not play nicely with it until you fix up some of your udev rules. Thanks to http://steve.kargs.net/bacnet/avr-isp-mkii-on-ubuntu-hardy/ which provided files that only needed a little updating.

Create new file /etc/udev/avrisp.rules

SUBSYSTEM!="usb", ACTION!="add", GOTO="avrisp_end"

# Atmel Corp. JTAG ICE mkII
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2103", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
# Atmel Corp. AVRISP mkII
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2104", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
# Atmel Corp. Dragon
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2107", MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"

LABEL="avrisp_end"

Now create a virtual link to the file and give it a rule priority

cd /etc/udev/rules.d
sudo ln ../avrisp.rules 60-avrisp.rules

Check you're in the dialout group

groups

Restart udev

sudo service udev restart

Hooray!