[chirp_users] Use on VX5r

[Steve Kompier]

Marty,

Glad that you're making progress. Follow the previous suggestion and add
the PPA to your sources and then you'll get the daily builds.

Steve

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Marty Hartwell <mhartwe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve
>
> Here is the response, which shows me in dialout ok.
>
> marty at marty-Laptop:~$ groups marty
> marty : marty adm dialout cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
> marty at marty-Laptop:~$
>
> I did a reset on the rig and tried again and it worked, but the grid
> doesn't look right so I think once I get the updates in place I will
> try again.
>
>
>
> Marty kd8bj
>
> On 09/23/2012 06:41 PM, Steve Kompier wrote:
> > In a terminal, what does "groups marty" show? (no quotes). If the listed
> > groups doesn't show dialout, run this command without quotes "sudo
> > usermod -a -G dialout marty" and then groups marty again.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Marty Hartwell <mhartwe at gmail.com
> > <mailto:mhartwe at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi
> >
> >     I am a new member to the Chirp user group  and have a question.
> >
> >     I have downloaded Chirp to Xubuntu 12.04 using Synaptic Package
> >     Manager and set it up to try to work with the VX5R. I get an error
> >     message after trying to connect. The connection is via a USB to
> >     serial adapter which has worked before with the rig. The software is
> >     configured to use ttyUSB0 which is correct, I see that /dev/ttyUSB0
> >     has permissions of:
> >     crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188,  0 Sep 23 17:22 /dev/ttyUSB0
> >
> >     So I put myself in the dialout group as such:
> >     dialout:x:20:marty
> >
> >     and have rebooted the machine a couple of times since that time.
> >     First is the entry in group correct, my login id is marty?
> >
> >     Second has anyone else had this problem with VX5R rigs.
> >
> >     The version of Chirp I am using is 0.1.12, I just loaded it yesterday
> >     sometime.
> >
> >     On another not, I have a system running Win XP and loaded Chirp on it
> >     too and am getting much the same response. Only on that system I
> >     was connecting via serial port.
> >     I was able to connect and download and modify using Vx5 Commander and
> >     EVE, not very well mind you but it did work.
> >
> >     Any ideas.
> >
> >     Marty kd8bj
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