Electronic – Is it possible to power target microcontroller from AVRISP mkII using Atmel Studio

It sounds like you need the TTY chip driver, or you need to associate the USB device's Vendor and Product ID to said driver. That programmer should manifest itself to the OS as a USB Serial Adapter.

Under windows, find the device in the device manager, and go to it's properties. Find the Hardware IDs in the tabs, and add them in here, then we can try to point you to the right driver for the programmer.

There are several possible problems. One is actually udev. If it runs fine calling avrdude with sudo, you have to get your udev stuff right. In Debian Wheezy I have the following line in my /etc/udev/rules.d/56-avr.rules file:

# Atmel AVR ISP mkII
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2104", GROUP="users", MODE="0660"

I guess you can change any appropriate group.

If that's not your error, check your circuit. A common problem is other things are connected to the ISP pin header. If you want to be sure, put the controller somewhere, where nothing else is connected to these pins and try to flash it there.

And finally: check the colors of the LED in the mkII. Errors or warnings are indicated by yellow/orange or red color. If everything is wired up correctly, the LED in the programmer is green.