<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>For Windows, try rolling your Prolific driver back to 3.2.0.0. Also, make sure cable is FIRMLY pushed in.<br><br><div>Jardy Dawson</div><div>WA7JRD Ham Radio</div><div><br></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Message relayed from secret Hillary Clinton server, located in the basement of her house. OOPS, you aren't supposed to know that!</span></div><div><br>On Nov 13, 2016, at 08:49, Robert Carter <<a href="mailto:carterrj@verizon.net">carterrj@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span>I picked up my general license this year due to an incident I was </span><br><span>involved in -- remote accident with no communications. Just sucked. </span><br><span>Should have studied for the extra license too and gotten them all over </span><br><span>on the same day.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Anyway, I picked up a new Yaesu FT2D yesterday. I'm trying to get over </span><br><span>the programming hump. In the box with the FT2D was a USB programming cable.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Win7:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Yeasu in-the-box supplied Prolific cable and driver from Yeasu's web </span><br><span>site won't run. v1.8 driver fails to install. I downloaded and the </span><br><span>latest v1.16 driver from Prolific's web site, still no love.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Ubutnu 14.04 LTS:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Now it gets interesting. lsubb reports PID/VID for this cable:</span><br><span></span><br><span> Bus 005 Device 016: ID 26aa:0001</span><br><span></span><br><span>The pl2303 kernel module doesn't recognize this PID/VID as a serial </span><br><span>device. When the cable is inserted, the kernel doesn't load the serial </span><br><span>USB module. "modinfo pl2303" doesn't list this Yeasu cable's PID/VID.</span><br><span></span><br><span>When inserting the USB-serial cable, while the FT2D is in "clone" mode, </span><br><span>syslog reports:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Nov 13 10:20:53 booger kernel: [ 4471.004031] usb 5-1: new full-speed </span><br><span>USB device number 16 using uhci_hcd</span><br><span>Nov 13 10:20:58 booger kernel: [ 4476.361065] usb 5-1: New USB device </span><br><span>found, idVendor=26aa, idProduct=0001</span><br><span>Nov 13 10:20:58 booger kernel: [ 4476.361073] usb 5-1: New USB device </span><br><span>strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0</span><br><span>Nov 13 10:20:58 booger mtp-probe: checking bus 5, device 16: </span><br><span>"/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-1"</span><br><span>Nov 13 10:20:58 booger mtp-probe: bus: 5, device: 16 was not an MTP device</span><br><span></span><br><span>I tried manually to force load the kernel modules and force the PID/VID </span><br><span>into the drivers -- but still nada:</span><br><span></span><br><span> sudo modprobe pl2303 vendor=0x26aa product=0x0001</span><br><span> sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x26aa product=0x0001</span><br><span></span><br><span>I looked over the CHIRP source code and with the kernel modules "forced" </span><br><span>and the FT2D still in "clone' mode, then launched minicom on </span><br><span>/dev/ttyUSB0. Set the baud rate to 38400 8N1 -- nada. Nothing to/from </span><br><span>the FD2R.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I'm willing to guinea pig here and run some experiments. If anyone has </span><br><span>any ideas, I'd like to hear them.</span><br><span></span><br><span>This should be this hard (well, except for windows).</span><br><span></span><br><span>I checked over the last year of the CHIRP mailing list and didn't find </span><br><span>any posts relative to the FT1D or FT2D, so I guess I'm breaking new ground.</span><br><span></span><br><span>/KC1FAC/</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>chirp_users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a></span><br><span>This message was sent to Jardy at <a href="mailto:jardy72@yahoo.com">jardy72@yahoo.com</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a></span><br></div></body></html>