[chirp_users] Chirp IndexError

[Benjamin Krueger]

It is the Prolific chipset and the drivers appear to work, having created /dev/cu.usbserial. I'm sad to report that this is helpful, but I'm still at a point where things don't work. The beginner's guide perhaps assumes that the radio is already set up to be cloned? I've tried cloning with the radio off, on, in clone mode, and in clone mode ready to TX. All of these results fail. The VX-6R is a pretty common radio, so I can't be the first user to have tried this and run into issues. I'm looking for further suggestions, and I'd be happy to update the beginner's guide to be more comprehensive for new users.

On May 4, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 15:37, Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com> wrote:
>>> That did the trick. Any suggestions on what serial port to use with
>>> the suggested eBay USB cable to a VX-6?
>> 
>> I'm sure that's a Prolific 2303 chip, but I'm not sure if you need a
>> driver for it or not.  I'm not sure what device it shows up as under
>> MacOS.  Something like /dev/cu.usbserial or similar.  Hopefully you can
>> google/poke around for details on that brand/model and find what you need.
> 
> If it's Prolific (or one of the Chinese counterfeit Prolific chips
> that are so common these days), it'll be something like
> /dev/cu.pl2303-xxxx, I think. Once you have the drivers installed, and
> plug in the USB cable, you can find it with this command:
> 
> ls -t /dev/cu.* | head -n 1
> 
> That lists your serial ports in order of most recent to oldest, and
> returns only the first one in the list. If you just now plugged in the
> USB cable, it will surely be the newest serial port on the system.
> 
> Tom KD7LXL
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