[chirp_users] Use on VX5r

Marty Hartwell
Mon Sep 24 06:28:00 PDT 2012


Hi Steve

I did add them last night.

Marty kd8bj

On 09/24/2012 12:02 AM, Steve Kompier wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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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