[chirp_users] now using Linux

[Jim Unroe]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Jack Schlachter <km4tdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - I'm the one trying to use chirp with my Luiton radio. Still same
> problem as per last post.
> So I had an idea. I was reading about the Linux part on danplanet and
> decided to pull out my Linux machine and give my Baofeng a try and maybe if
> I can get that to work it would work on my Luiton. So I loaded chirp on
> Linux as per instructions and everything went fine. Plugged my radio in and
> got : An error has occurred; could not open port /dev/ttyS0: [Errno13]
> Permission denied:'/dev/ttyS0'
> So I read further on your site and ran "sudo usermod -aG dialout username"
> replacing username with mine, closed chirp reopened and tried again with
> same results. I have to admit I'm not real Linux savvy. I don't really
> understand how you pick a port. When I click the down arrow there's a whole
> list of /dev/ttyS? so I took the default chirp pulled up which is obviously
> /dev/ttyS0 How do I find out which port my cable is on?
> thanks again,
> Jack

Jack,

Assuming that you have a USB programming cable, it is all the way at
the bottom of the list.

/dev/ttyUSB0

Jim KC9HI