<p dir="ltr">I bought a cheap one from ebay... windows keeps throwing it's toys out of the pram with drivers, but I have worked out what I need to do with that now. My cable has worked with ubuntu, Gentoo and debian happily with no issues...</p>
<p dir="ltr">Btu<br><br></p>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Oct 2016 23:29, "Richard" <<a href="mailto:richard.cs@gmail.com">richard.cs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Neil,<br><br></div>Thanks for the offer. You're some distance from me but I may take you up if I get really stuck. Could I ask where you bought yours from? When I look I only see cheap cables, even the higher-priced ones are the same cheap cables.<br><br></div>At the moment I think the symptoms probably point elsewhere - given that if I open GtkTerm the radio doesn't go into TX like it does with Chirp, and that I can show characters being looped-back.<font color="#888888"><br><br></font></div><font color="#888888">Richard<br></font></div><div class="elided-text"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 October 2016 at 23:01, Neil Stone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil.stone@gmail.com" target="_blank">neil.stone@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hi Richard,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Do you want to try another radio and/or cable? I work overlooking Segensworth roundabout and am more than happy to help if I can.</p>
<p dir="ltr">73</p>
<p dir="ltr">Neil M6LPI</p>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_6362307451838284176h5">On 29 Oct 2016 22:54, "Richard" <<a href="mailto:richard.cs@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.cs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_6362307451838284176h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>Geographically?<br><br></div>Southampton, UK.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 October 2016 at 14:27, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nigel@ngunn.net" target="_blank">nigel@ngunn.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Where are you?<br>
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> On 29 October 2016 at 07:20 Richard <<a href="mailto:richard.cs@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.cs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
> I know this is a common problem but I have tried all the "usual" things<br>
> with no success. I am on my second programming cable after the first one<br>
> just didn't get recognised as a USB device, and first attempt I was able to<br>
> download the contents of my radio. Since then however it's not worked again.<br>
><br>
> The cable works OK and the drivers are loaded, as confirmed by opening a<br>
> serial terminal, linking the TX and RX pins and observing loopback. The<br>
> radio goes into TX when powered on with the cable attached and some vicious<br>
> connector trimming doesn't help - I am sure it is going all the way in.<br>
> Following the order in the Chirp pop-up instructions (cable is already<br>
> connected to PC and correct serial port selected, radio off, connect cable,<br>
> radio on with volume right up, check no activity, click OK) doesn't help.<br>
> The radio goes into TX as soon as it's booted and after a few seconds I get<br>
> "Radio did not respond".<br>
><br>
> The radio does *not* go into TX if I have that port open in a serial<br>
> terminal when I turn the radio on, and presumably if Chirp opened the port<br>
> when the instructional message is displayed (before the radio is turned on)<br>
> but still waited for the user to click OK before trying to communicate all<br>
> would work?<br>
><br>
> I think that the one time it did work it might have been TX-ing and I just<br>
> got lucky that it didn't interfere with communications - I do remember some<br>
> interference on my monitor which I now know happens when the radio<br>
> transmits.<br>
><br>
> Anyone got any good ideas? Given that the radio doesn't go into transmit<br>
> mode when the serial port is open I can't see how it can be bad cable /<br>
> poor connections.<br>
><br>
> This is on Linux Mate 1.12.1, with the current daily Chirp build. My user<br>
> is in the dialout group and has serial port access.<br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
> Richard<br>
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