<div dir="ltr"><div>Make sure you're not running through an external USB hub or anything; connect directly to the computer.</div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Try disconnecting the cable, and then running:</div><div><br></div><div>user@host:~$ dmesg</div><div>(a ton of system messages should stream by)</div><div><br></div><div>Then reconnect your cable, turn on radio/volume up (shouldn't be necessary for dmesg output, but might as well do it now), and run the same command:</div><div><br></div><div>user@host:~$ dmesg</div><div>(all of the previous system messages, and hopefully something new indicating a usb->serial device like below)</div><div><div>[430941.789785] usb 2-1.7: new full-speed USB device number 49 using ehci-pci</div><div>[430941.883258] usb 2-1.7: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303</div><div>[430941.883267] usb 2-1.7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0</div><div>[430941.883272] usb 2-1.7: Product: USB-Serial Controller</div><div>[430941.883277] usb 2-1.7: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.</div><div>[430941.883801] pl2303 2-1.7:1.0: pl2303 converter detected</div><div>[430941.885384] usb 2-1.7: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0</div></div><div><br></div><div>Assuming your system registers the usb->serial cable, you should see it in dmesg w/the device it was assigned (/dev/ttyUSB0 in my case -- vdir /dev/ttyUSB* is faster if you just need the device ID, but if vdir isn't showing anything, dmesg might give you a hint as to why). </div><div><br></div><div>I had to enter /dev/ttyUSB0 manually in the "Port" section of CHIRP -- it didn't show by default unless I restarted CHIRP after the cable was connected.</div><div><br></div><div>-Amber</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:11 PM, n4lbl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.schulman@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan.schulman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)">Thanks. I suspect that this is interesting:</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><div class="gmail_default">n4lbl@eel:~$ vdir /dev/ttyUSB</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><div class="gmail_default">vdir: cannot access /dev/ttyUSB: No such file or directory</div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:10 PM, W Paul Mills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:AC0HY@wpmills.com" target="_blank">AC0HY@wpmills.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Should be showing as /dev/ttyUSB0 or something similar. From a text box<br>
or terminal screen type "vdir /dev/ttyUSB*" and see what the results<br>
show. If nothing shows, your cable is not being recognised. If it shows,<br>
but not in chirp text box, type it in, and it should work.<br>
<div><div><br>
On 02/11/2015 02:49 PM, n4lbl wrote:<br>
> When trying to download I get the message:<br>
><br>
> An error has occurred<br>
> Could not configure port: (5, 'Input/output error')<br>
><br>
> The environment is Ubuntu 14.04, Chirp daily -20150210, cable SCU-18<br>
> with power light on, HT in CLONE mode.<br>
><br>
> The Radio box presents port choices /dev/ttyS0 thru /dev/ttyS31 and I<br>
> have tried many of these but not all, and always received the same exact<br>
> message. There were no USB possibilities presented.<br>
><br>
> The message said nothing of permissions. I did check anyway and saw:<br>
><br>
> n4lbl@eel:~$ groups n4lbl<br>
> n4lbl : n4lbl adm dialout fax cdrom floppy tape audio dip video<br>
> plugdev fuse scanner lpadmin netdev sambashare<br>
><br>
> so that seems OK.<br>
><br>
> The HT's internal code is ancient: from when I bought it in Nov. or<br>
> Dec. '13. My intention was to back it up before upgrading the code.<br>
><br>
> This is sure to be a knuckleheaded mistake or something I didn't read or<br>
> forgot.<br>
> Thanks,,,<br>
><br>
> Alan,,, n4lbl<br>
><br>
><br>
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