<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Push the cable in VERY firmly, and try again. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Jardy Dawson WA7JRD<div><br></div><div><div>Message sent my....Oh, who the heck cares, anyway? Could be my shoelaces, as far as I care!</div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 16, 2020, at 21:58, Kheong Sann CHAN <kheongsann@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm trying to connect to a UV-5R using a USB cable that was bought some time (maybe 5-10 years) ago, using chirpw on ubuntu 16.04.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The tty port is found when I plug it in:<br></div><div>$ dmesg | grep tty<br>[ 7527.188154] usb 1-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0<br>[ 7548.490452] pl2303 ttyUSB0: pl2303 converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0</div><div><br></div><div>$ la /dev/ttyU*<br>crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Feb 17 13:49 /dev/ttyUSB0</div><div><br></div><div>When I start chirpw and try to download from radio, the error is not consistent, it depends on whether I've tried it before or not. Sometimes I get the error: <br></div><div>[Errno 16] could not open port /dev/ttyUSB0: <br></div><div>[Errno 16] Device or resource busy: '/dev/ttyUSB0'</div><div><br></div><div>and /dev/ttyUSB0 disappears.</div><div><br></div><div>Another time after I unplugged and replugged the USB cable and restarted chirpw, /dev/ttyUSB0 reappears and when I try to download from radio I get:</div><div>[Errno 5] could not open port /dev/ttyUSB0: <br></div><div>[Errno 5] Input/output error: '/dev/ttyUSB0'</div><div><br></div><div>Any advice on how to troubleshoot this?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kheong.</div><div><br></div></div>
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