<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>First I would suggest trying out the latest daily. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download</a> - scroll to bottom in "development builds" section<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>Second, for mac, if you have chinese cable, it's probably fake PL2303. The official mac driver might look like its working, but nothing really happens. (At least on windows, you get the yellow icon and code 10.)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>You will probably want to try out the fixed driver: <a href="http://changux.co/osx-installer-to-pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lio/">http://changux.co/osx-installer-to-pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lio/</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;">Thirdly, with the chinese radios, sometimes they need to be factory reset to work properly. I suggest taking a backup w/ "good" oem software, then resetting radio, then attempting to download that "default" image into chirp.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">If the cable works on windows w/ oem software, but does not work with same cable on windows w/ latest daily chirp, then there may be a bug with chirp and your radio. In that case, please follow this guide and open a bug:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_to_report_issues">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_to_report_issues</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> </div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:51 PM, David M. Carney <n1zhe.nh@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2947956048"><div>
OK, I'm using the latest Stable release (not the daily) on all three
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The cable, though it appears to be recognized by Chirp does not
work. When I say "recognized", I mean Chirp seems to be
downloading/uploading when I tell it to but no data is actually
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The light falshes on the radio as it does with the TYT software but
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<div class="yiv2947956048yqt4157344271" id="yiv2947956048yqt69633"><div class="yiv2947956048moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/2013 01:44 PM, Jens J. wrote:<br clear="none">
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I'm
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Are you
saying the cable works ok with stock programming software on
windows, but will not work with chirp on windows?</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">If so, can
you confirm you are using the latest daily release of chirp?</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">If this is
not so, please be explicit with where this is working and
where this is not working, to include which OS and programming
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November 16, 2013 12:34 PM, David M. Carney
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<div> I have Windows 7, a late 2007 iMac or an Ubuntu
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The cable works as expected on my Windows 7 machine
and it seems to be detected by my Mac and Linux
(using the "dmesg | grep tty" command from a
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While useful, the "stock" programming software
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windows or mac?</span></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">If on Windows, are you able to use
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2013 12:12 PM, David M. Carney <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv2947956048moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:n1zhe.nh@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:n1zhe.nh@gmail.com"><n1zhe.nh@gmail.com></a>
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Just a blank page in Chirp for my
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I know the problem lies with the
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