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</head><body><p>I believe it is usually the "dialout" group.</p><blockquote type="cite">On 21 March 2019 at 19:37 "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote: <br> <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default">Sam,</div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default">Please do this:</div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default">ls -l /dev/ <span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">ttyUSB0</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">Send back the output.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">Also send back the output of this when you are using your user (regular) account:</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">groups</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">It is important that you are in the group that owns /dev/ttyUSB0</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">I'm not using Ubuntu but Arch Linux, but here is my output to show you:</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 <br>crw-rw---- 1 root <strong>uucp</strong> 188, 0 Mar 21 09:40 /dev/ttyUSB0</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">[djringjr@n1ea ~]$ groups<br>video <strong>uucp</strong> wheel djringjr</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">I've made <strong>uucp </strong>bold so you can see the important part.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">I believe /dev/ttyUSB0 in Ubuntu is owned by root tty - don't change it!  Just make sure you are a member of whatever group that owns /dev/ttyUSB0.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">Different distros handle devices slightly differently.  The point is that if you are executing CHIRP and you are not a member of the group that owns the /dev/ttyUSB0 device, it will not work.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">To add a user to a group - whatever group owns the ttyUSB0 - <br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><pre><code>sudo adduser user group<br></code></pre><pre><code>Where user is your user name and group is the group that owns ttyUSB0<br><br></code></pre></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">73</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">DR</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';">N1EA</span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;" class="ox-b2514dbeb6-gmail_default"><span style="font-family: 'Andale Mono';"><br></span></div></div></div>_______________________________________________ <br>chirp_users mailing list <br>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com <br>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users <br>This message was sent to Nigel Gunn, W8IFF at nigel@ngunn.net <br>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</blockquote><p><br></p><div class="io-ox-signature"><p>Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032<br>Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF and GMRS WRBV701, e-mail nigel@ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net <br><br></p></div></body></html>