<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Geoffrey,</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>No driver needed. USB serial devices are detected by the kernel.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>It's very easy. Just edit the /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/ttyUSB0 or 1 whichever was detected. </span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Do a </span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span>ls -alt /dev/ttyU* </span></div><div><span> in a terminal window to find which device it used after you've plugged in the cable.<br></span></div><div><br></div><div>You'll get something like this:</div><div> <span>crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jul 27 16:18 /dev/ttyUSB0</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Make sure your user is part of the dialout group to avoid having to run Chirp as
root.<br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy,<br></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Marc-Andre, Ve2evn</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com" <chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 27, 2012 3:00 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> chirp_users Digest, Vol 43, Issue 21<br> </font> </div> <br>Date:
Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:15:51 -0400<br>From: "Geoffrey K. Phillips" <<a ymailto="mailto:gphillips13@centurylink.net" href="mailto:gphillips13@centurylink.net">gphillips13@centurylink.net</a>><br>Subject: [chirp_users] Using CHIRP with UBUNTU<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:5012DAD7.22500.D82DA20@gphillips13.centurylink.net" href="mailto:5012DAD7.22500.D82DA20@gphillips13.centurylink.net">5012DAD7.22500.D82DA20@gphillips13.centurylink.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Hi there,<br><br>Well, I got CHIRP to work fine with my handy little Baofeng UV-5R on <br>Windows XP. [well done fellows !!]<br><br>I now have it running on UBUNTU, except it looks for a tty(x) driver, and I <br>use a USB cable.<br><br>What do I have to do so that I can use this cable? Do I need a Linux
driver? <br>And if so, where do I get one?<br><br>Thank you a lot,<br><br>Geoffrey<br><br><br><br>Geofrey K. Phillips<br><a ymailto="mailto:gphillips13@centurylink.net" href="mailto:gphillips13@centurylink.net">gphillips13@centurylink.net</a><br>WD4LYO<br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>