<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">This order makes sense to me. Naturally, if you try to download before<br>turning on the radio it's not going to work. The only thing that<br>surprises me is rebooting the computer. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortuantely, now it will not connect at all. More below.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">This will only make a<br>difference if your USB-serial cable is misbehaving. You might look into<br>that to make sure you have it installed in accordance with the<br>instructions from the manufacturer. Even better, use a real serial<br>port so you're not fighting with drivers.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe the adapter may be at fault, seeing as now it won't connect, AT ALL. Using a dedicated serial port is not an option, I don't own a single computer that has one!</div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
Doesn't this happen in the background? You should be able to edit your<br>20 channels while Chirp continues to check the rest of the radio for<br>data.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe so, but it was so flaky I didn't want to "interupt" it. I got errors when trying to do anything while it was downloading the empty channel info.</div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
Look for clues in your debug log. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>see below, all I can guess is adapter is junk. I'll see if there are any checks I can perform on it and the kenwood cable</div><div><br></div><div>[2016-12-29 17:15:27,662] chirp.ui.mainapp - DEBUG: User selected Kenwood TM-D710G on port /dev/ttyUSB0</div><div>Traceback (most recent call last):</div><div> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/ui/mainapp.py", line 1432, in mh</div><div> self.do_download(*args)</div><div> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/chirp/ui/mainapp.py", line 683, in do_download</div><div> timeout=0.25)</div><div> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/serial/serialutil.py", line 180, in __init__</div><div> self.open()</div><div> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 311, in open</div><div> self._update_dtr_state()</div><div> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 605, in _update_dtr_state</div><div> fcntl.ioctl(self.fd, TIOCMBIS, TIOCM_DTR_str)</div><div>IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error </div></div>