fuses

The Fuses for the µController need to be set first before programming the device but only ONCE since they are persistent !

The following list contains a few examples to use the 8MHz INTERNAL oszillator, since there is no crystal on the board (...yet) (8MHz is more than enough for this application,they are expensive and not needed when careful^^)

ATMega 8 - internal 8 MHz

avrdude -e -c usbasp -pm8 -B10 -U lfuse:w:0xe4:m -U hfuse:w:0xd9:m

ATMega 16 - internal 8 MHz

avrdude -e -c usbasp -pm16 -B10 -U lfuse:w:0xe4:m -U hfuse:w:0x99:m

ATMega 88 - internal 8 MHz

avrdude -e -c usbasp -pm88 -B10 -U lfuse:w:0xe2:m -U hfuse:w:0xdf:m -U efuse:w:0xf9:m

the source : http://www.engbedded.com/fusecalc/