I have been trying to use the PICKIT 2 programmer option within MPLAB IDE, but it seems like the option to do so is disable as shown in
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I have also tried to update the firmware of my PICKIT 2 separately on the software provided on the Microchip website, but it keeps on freezing regularly every time I have attempted to check my PIC18F2620 to see if it is empty (it's brand new). The PICKIT 2 software is able to detect my programmer, but that's about it. Does anyone know what I need to do to activate the option to use my programmer straight in MPLAB?
I have also looking at open source options, i.e. using Piklab in Ubuntu Linux for the development. I have looked at
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but haven't tried it yet. Does anyone else have any ideas before resorting to the hard way?
Thanks!