[chirp_users] [FIXED] Re: Download From Radio under Ubuntu 20.04 error

Thu Apr 8 06:10:21 PDT 2021

Hilarious!

- Sent From My Phone

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 8:06 PM W Paul Mills <ac0hy at wpmills.com> wrote:

> Glad to have helped!
>
> On 4/7/21 7:34 PM, Robert Withers wrote:
>
> Hey! It worked! I had to seat the cable one last click, as I saw ttyUSB0
> disappear and then appear on unplugging then plugging in the USB and I also
> had ftdi_sio module installed. I seated the cable firmly and read the radio
> config.
>
> Thanks so much and I would say I apologize for all my encoding BS clogging
> the thread on the wrong list. Forgive me my excess. I do not mean to
> antagonize. Just searching for information to become a productive member of
> the radio community.
>
> Kindly,
> Robert
> On 4/7/21 8:15 PM, W Paul Mills wrote:
>
> Certainly looks to me like you are trying to make this too hard. Modules
> needed are loaded usbserial and ftdi_sio.
>
> Simply do "ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*" before and after plugging in the cable. You
> should then know for sure which port to use. Otherwise most common cause of
> no response from radio is poor connection on the radio end. Try seating the
> cable with a little extra push. In some cases, cables have even needed to
> be trimmed a bit to properly seated.
>
> I can't believe all the BS in this tread.
>
>
> On 4/7/21 9:19 AM, Robert Withers via chirp_users wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Thanks for pointing me this way, although it seems I am not auto
> configuring a module for ttyUSB0. I am attaching the output of
>
> lsmod | sed -n 'p;$=' > lsmod-count.txt
>
> Where the last line is a line count. There is no changes in this output
> between having the phoe unplugged versus plugged, so perhaps that is an
> indicator that auto-config of a module to talk to the radio is misfiring. I
> dunno. Is this where modprobe comes in? What module name should I install
> for Chirp managing traffic over ttyUSB0?
>
> Thanks!
> Robert
>
> On 4/6/21 9:04 PM, Eric Oyen via chirp_users wrote:
>
> Well,
> It does depend on the GUI. There is actually a control panel of sorts if
> you use Unity or gnome as your desktop. Under there will be a number of
> “applets” for hardware configuration. This was the gnome project idea of
> mimicking a windows interface as well as it’s control panel. However, it is
> sometimes not as useful as being able to troubleshoot and add/remove
> devices from the CLI. One should look up lsmod as well as modprobe and
> Insmod. If things are working correctly, new devices will always appear in
> the /dev directory and may even have some sort of “magic number” associated
> with them. That’s an advanced idea and shouldn’t really be of concern for
> this discussion.
>
> Now, if you use the “Lsmod” command (not capitalized, as my stupid
> autocorrect is trying to change it) before you plug in the usb cable, you
> should see a list of modules and what they do. After plugging in the cable
> that connects to your radio, and doing the same command, you should see 1
> or more new modules loaded. Those modules will be associated with new
> devices that show up under /dev. Now, they may be listed as TTYS0 or TTYS1,
> etc. those would be your comm port entries. ttys0 should be associated with
> comm 1, etc.
>
> Now, if your system is properly configured, then most of this already
> happens in background. However, there may be some cases where you may have
> to add your user account to the appropriate group in order to use the
> device. There are GUI programs for this as well as some CLI commands. Now,
> some of the commands above may require that you use sudo and log into root.
> 2 items of caution here:
> 1. If you are unsure, don’t use sudo
> 2. Sudo is dangerous if you mess up. Only for advanced users! So, be very
> careful if you do have to use it.
>
> As always, read the associated man pages.
>
> DE n7zzt Eric
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2021, at 4:24 PM, Al Jones <al at aljones.us> wrote:
>
> It appears as if we have a computer newbie on our hands since he's looking
> for *device manager* on Ubuntu ... one of you good linux guys want to
> take him in hand and walk him through?
> I'm no help, I know a bit about linux but like most of the world I live in
> windows.
> //al
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Matthew Poletiek" <matthew.poletiek at gmail.com>
> To: "Robert" <robert.withers at pm.me>; "Discussion of CHIRP" <
> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> Sent: Tue 4 6 21 18:20:30
> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Download From Radio under Ubuntu 20.04 error
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> You might want to check to make sure your user has proper permissions.
>
> In linux, typically the groups you might need for this kind of
> operation include `dialout`, `usb`, and while you're at it you might
> as well include `plugdev`.
>
> The command to add your user to a group might be `sudo gpasswd -a <user>
> group`.
>
> Once thats finished you might need to refresh your profile. Either try
> opening CHIRP in a new terminal, or log out and log back in.
> -------------------------------------------
> Matthew Poletiek
> 303.810.9082
> matthew.poletiek at gmail.com
> www.matthewpoletiek.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:56 PM Robert via chirp_users
> <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
>
> Nigel,
>
> Here is some more info, I think this is saying it is attached to
> /dev/ttyUSB0, but same issue.
>
> rabbit at ganymede:/dev$ dmesg | grep tty
> [ 0.108543] printk: console [tty0] enabled
> [ 0.396294] 00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a
> 16550A
> [ 0.418318] 0000:00:16.3: ttyS4 at I/O 0xf0e0 (irq = 19, base_baud =
> 115200) is a 16550A
> [ 9667.132474] usb 1-1.1.3: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached
> to ttyUSB0
> [10669.642560] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now
> disconnected from ttyUSB0
> [10670.495576] usb 1-1.1.3: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached
> to ttyUSB0
>
>
> Kindly,
>
> Robert
>
> . .. ... ‘...^,^
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Tuesday, April 6th, 2021 at 5:51 PM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <
> nigel at ngunn.net> wrote:
>
> > Usually /dev/ttyUSB0 unless you already have another serial device
> already plugged in to a USB port.
> >
> > Go to file manager and look in /dev/ and see what appears and disappears
> when you plun in and unplug the cable.
> >
> > > On 06/04/2021 17:34 Robert via chirp_users
> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.comwrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Total noob, here. Taking my exams on Thursday. Got my TIDRADIO UV-5R
> and the FTDI cable. How can I detect which /dev/tty is being used for the
> FTDI connection to my radio? I tried /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyUSB0 which
> resulted in the error 'Radio did not respond'.
> > >
> > > Kindly,
> > >
> > > Robert
> > >
> > > . .. ... ‘...^,^
> > >
>
>
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