<div dir="ltr">Hi guys,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><br></div>A friend has a new Wouxun KG-UV8E.<br><br></div>Someone said it would work with the Wouxun KG-UV8D selection of the daily build of CHIRP.<br><br></div>dmesg tail reveals that the Wouxun programmiing cable is using /dev/tty/USB0 which is owned by root and group uucp.<br></div>So I added uucp to my user's groups.<br><div><br> ls /dev/ttyUSB0 -l<br>crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Aug 19 14:09 /dev/ttyUSB0<br><br>[djringjr@laptop ~]$ groups<br>sys adm wheel uucp audio users<br><br>Daily Build -<br>chirpw --version<br>CHIRP daily-20160802 on Linux laptop 4.7.0-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 8 22:24:23 CEST 2016 i686 (Python 2.7.12)<br><br>Here's what happens.<br><br>[djringjr@laptop ~]$ chirpw <br><br>(process:2492): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.<br> Using the fallback 'C' locale.<br>ERROR: -- Exception: --<br>ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/chirp/ui/clone.py", line 249, in run<br> self.__radio.sync_in()<br> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/chirp/drivers/kguv8d.<wbr>py", line 375, in sync_in<br> self._mmap = self._download()<br> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/chirp/drivers/kguv8d.<wbr>py", line 391, in _download<br> self._identify()<br> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/chirp/drivers/kguv8d.<wbr>py", line 353, in _identify<br> _chksum_err, _resp = self._read_record()<br> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-<wbr>packages/chirp/drivers/kguv8d.<wbr>py", line 315, in _read_record<br> raise errors.RadioError('Radio did not respond')<br>RadioError: Radio did not respond<br><br>ERROR: ----------------<br>ERROR: Clone failed: Radio did not respond<br>ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: Radio did not respond ---<br>ERROR: None<br><br>ERROR: ----------------------------<br><br></div><div>I tried the same cable and radio on Windows 10 using the CHIRP latest daily build <br><br></div><div>Same error - could not communicate with radio.<br><br><br></div><div>Using the Wouxun software with correct driver on Win10, same error.<br><br></div><div>Any suggestions?<br><br></div><div>David N1EA<br><br></div></div>
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