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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Quit sending me this junk chirp is a piece of shit !!!!!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, May 22, 2020 12:02 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>chirp_users Digest, Vol 137, Issue 18</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Send chirp_users mailing list submissions to</p><p class=MsoNormal> chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit</p><p class=MsoNormal> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to</p><p class=MsoNormal> chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can reach the person managing the list at</p><p class=MsoNormal> chirp_users-owner@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific</p><p class=MsoNormal>than "Re: Contents of chirp_users digest..."</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Today's Topics:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> 1. No USB Port Error (Glenn K0LNY)</p><p class=MsoNormal> 2. Re: No USB Port Error (Jim Unroe)</p><p class=MsoNormal> 3. Re: No USB Port Error (Glenn K0LNY)</p><p class=MsoNormal> 4. Re: No USB Port Error (Tony Fuller)</p><p class=MsoNormal> 5. Re: No USB Port Error (Glenn K0LNY)</p><p class=MsoNormal> 6. Re: No USB Port Error (Tony Fuller)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 1</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 12:04:21 -0500</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: "Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin@cableone.net></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID: <0eab01d6305b$0a056050$7001a8c0@NUCPPYH></p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>I just got a new used radio, a Kenwood TH-F6.</p><p class=MsoNormal>So I plugged in the radio using a non-Kenwood cable and I went into "radio" and download from radio and selected my radio model and USB0 and I get the message:</p><p class=MsoNormal>error no 2 cannot open tty/usb0 error cannot locate tty/USB0.</p><p class=MsoNormal>or something similar.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I have used this cable and that Ubuntu with Chirp in the past for my other radios, and other than different brands of radios, I have always been able to do this.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I know a guy who has done this to this model using the Baofeng cable using a different software in Windows, not the Kenwood software, but one that they purchased.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I don't recall the name, but I think it starts with an R.</p><p class=MsoNormal>At any rate, I'd sooner buy a Kenwood cable than that other software and keep using Chirp.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Hopefully I didn't get it mixed up with the Radioddity cable.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I thought I had the right cable with the Radioddity when I sent it off.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I don't know if they put the name of the associated radio on the cables, since I'm Blind.</p><p class=MsoNormal>But any who, would this be an error for the wrong cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal>-------------- next part --------------</p><p class=MsoNormal>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</p><p class=MsoNormal>URL: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/attachments/20200522/dd8cc4e9/attachment-0001.html </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 2</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 13:51:48 -0400</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Jim Unroe <rock.unroe@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID:</p><p class=MsoNormal> <CADnO8U773ZuA_MO3vyqEFgNCPoEXuX2vbs0OdfUBE-+4hSvZsA@mail.gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:06 PM Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I just got a new used radio, a Kenwood TH-F6.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> So I plugged in the radio using a non-Kenwood cable and I went into "radio" and download from radio and selected my radio model and USB0 and I get the message:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> error no 2 cannot open tty/usb0 error cannot locate tty/USB0.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> or something similar.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I have used this cable and that Ubuntu with Chirp in the past for my other radios, and other than different brands of radios, I have always been able to do this.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I know a guy who has done this to this model using the Baofeng cable using a different software in Windows, not the Kenwood software, but one that they purchased.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't recall the name, but I think it starts with an R.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> At any rate, I'd sooner buy a Kenwood cable than that other software and keep using Chirp.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hopefully I didn't get it mixed up with the Radioddity cable.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I thought I had the right cable with the Radioddity when I sent it off.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't know if they put the name of the associated radio on the cables, since I'm Blind.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> But any who, would this be an error for the wrong cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Thanks.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Glenn,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>From what you are describing it sounds like you Linux user doen't have</p><p class=MsoNormal>permission to access the port. Either run CHIRP as root or as your</p><p class=MsoNormal>Linus user to the dialout group.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also have a Kenwood TH-F6a. CHIRP programs it in "live" mode.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim KC9HI</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 3</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 12:57:34 -0500</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: "Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin@cableone.net></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID: <0ebd01d63062$79aeb7b0$7001a8c0@NUCPPYH></p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wondered about that, but I have used this computer and this Chirp program </p><p class=MsoNormal>to program other radios, but do you suppose the dialout thing needs to be </p><p class=MsoNormal>run with a different cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>This is a live instance of Ubuntu and I already added Ubuntu as the user in </p><p class=MsoNormal>dialout I am sure, because the CSV files for my other radios are there as </p><p class=MsoNormal>well.</p><p class=MsoNormal>That is what has me puzzled.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal>----- Original Message ----- </p><p class=MsoNormal>From: "Jim Unroe" <rock.unroe@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 12:51 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:06 PM Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I just got a new used radio, a Kenwood TH-F6.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> So I plugged in the radio using a non-Kenwood cable and I went into </p><p class=MsoNormal>> "radio" and download from radio and selected my radio model and USB0 and I </p><p class=MsoNormal>> get the message:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> error no 2 cannot open tty/usb0 error cannot locate tty/USB0.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> or something similar.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I have used this cable and that Ubuntu with Chirp in the past for my other </p><p class=MsoNormal>> radios, and other than different brands of radios, I have always been able </p><p class=MsoNormal>> to do this.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I know a guy who has done this to this model using the Baofeng cable using </p><p class=MsoNormal>> a different software in Windows, not the Kenwood software, but one that </p><p class=MsoNormal>> they purchased.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't recall the name, but I think it starts with an R.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> At any rate, I'd sooner buy a Kenwood cable than that other software and </p><p class=MsoNormal>> keep using Chirp.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hopefully I didn't get it mixed up with the Radioddity cable.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I thought I had the right cable with the Radioddity when I sent it off.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't know if they put the name of the associated radio on the cables, </p><p class=MsoNormal>> since I'm Blind.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> But any who, would this be an error for the wrong cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Thanks.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Glenn,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>From what you are describing it sounds like you Linux user doen't have</p><p class=MsoNormal>permission to access the port. Either run CHIRP as root or as your</p><p class=MsoNormal>Linus user to the dialout group.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also have a Kenwood TH-F6a. CHIRP programs it in "live" mode.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim KC9HI</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Glenn at glennervin@cableone.net</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to </p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 4</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 18:15:31 +0000</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Tony Fuller <goldstar611@hotmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID:</p><p class=MsoNormal> <DM6PR10MB30986421B3A51E23EAF033C8EDB40@DM6PR10MB3098.namprd10.prod.outlook.com></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adding your user to dialout group only takes effect after you log out and log back in which is not practical for a live environment IIRC.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can use something like the following for live environments:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sudo -g dialout chirpw</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This gives the dialout group permission to chirpw program while running as the current user. But I don't see any advantage to doing that over plain "sudo chirpw" (what Jim recommended) unless you get X11/Wayland/Mir errors.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tony</p><p class=MsoNormal>________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com <chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com> on behalf of Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 12:57:34 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wondered about that, but I have used this computer and this Chirp program</p><p class=MsoNormal>to program other radios, but do you suppose the dialout thing needs to be</p><p class=MsoNormal>run with a different cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>This is a live instance of Ubuntu and I already added Ubuntu as the user in</p><p class=MsoNormal>dialout I am sure, because the CSV files for my other radios are there as</p><p class=MsoNormal>well.</p><p class=MsoNormal>That is what has me puzzled.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal>----- Original Message -----</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: "Jim Unroe" <rock.unroe@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 12:51 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:06 PM Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I just got a new used radio, a Kenwood TH-F6.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> So I plugged in the radio using a non-Kenwood cable and I went into</p><p class=MsoNormal>> "radio" and download from radio and selected my radio model and USB0 and I</p><p class=MsoNormal>> get the message:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> error no 2 cannot open tty/usb0 error cannot locate tty/USB0.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> or something similar.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I have used this cable and that Ubuntu with Chirp in the past for my other</p><p class=MsoNormal>> radios, and other than different brands of radios, I have always been able</p><p class=MsoNormal>> to do this.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I know a guy who has done this to this model using the Baofeng cable using</p><p class=MsoNormal>> a different software in Windows, not the Kenwood software, but one that</p><p class=MsoNormal>> they purchased.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't recall the name, but I think it starts with an R.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> At any rate, I'd sooner buy a Kenwood cable than that other software and</p><p class=MsoNormal>> keep using Chirp.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hopefully I didn't get it mixed up with the Radioddity cable.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I thought I had the right cable with the Radioddity when I sent it off.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't know if they put the name of the associated radio on the cables,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> since I'm Blind.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> But any who, would this be an error for the wrong cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Thanks.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Glenn,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>From what you are describing it sounds like you Linux user doen't have</p><p class=MsoNormal>permission to access the port. Either run CHIRP as root or as your</p><p class=MsoNormal>Linus user to the dialout group.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also have a Kenwood TH-F6a. CHIRP programs it in "live" mode.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim KC9HI</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Glenn at glennervin@cableone.net</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Tony F at goldstar611@hotmail.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>-------------- next part --------------</p><p class=MsoNormal>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</p><p class=MsoNormal>URL: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/attachments/20200522/5454273d/attachment-0001.html </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 5</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 13:47:40 -0500</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: "Glenn K0LNY" <glennervin@cableone.net></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID: <0faa01d63069$79026df0$7001a8c0@NUCPPYH></p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Tony,</p><p class=MsoNormal>I should have mentioned, that this is a live version of Ubuntu on a USB drive with a persistence file, so it should save settings between uses.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal>----- Original Message ----- </p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Tony Fuller </p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP </p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 1:15 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adding your user to dialout group only takes effect after you log out and log back in which is not practical for a live environment IIRC.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can use something like the following for live environments:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sudo -g dialout chirpw </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This gives the dialout group permission to chirpw program while running as the current user. But I don't see any advantage to doing that over plain "sudo chirpw" (what Jim recommended) unless you get X11/Wayland/Mir errors.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tony</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com <chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com> on behalf of Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 12:57:34 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wondered about that, but I have used this computer and this Chirp program </p><p class=MsoNormal>to program other radios, but do you suppose the dialout thing needs to be </p><p class=MsoNormal>run with a different cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>This is a live instance of Ubuntu and I already added Ubuntu as the user in </p><p class=MsoNormal>dialout I am sure, because the CSV files for my other radios are there as </p><p class=MsoNormal>well.</p><p class=MsoNormal>That is what has me puzzled.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal>----- Original Message ----- </p><p class=MsoNormal>From: "Jim Unroe" <rock.unroe@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 12:51 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:06 PM Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I just got a new used radio, a Kenwood TH-F6.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> So I plugged in the radio using a non-Kenwood cable and I went into </p><p class=MsoNormal>> "radio" and download from radio and selected my radio model and USB0 and I </p><p class=MsoNormal>> get the message:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> error no 2 cannot open tty/usb0 error cannot locate tty/USB0.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> or something similar.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I have used this cable and that Ubuntu with Chirp in the past for my other </p><p class=MsoNormal>> radios, and other than different brands of radios, I have always been able </p><p class=MsoNormal>> to do this.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I know a guy who has done this to this model using the Baofeng cable using </p><p class=MsoNormal>> a different software in Windows, not the Kenwood software, but one that </p><p class=MsoNormal>> they purchased.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't recall the name, but I think it starts with an R.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> At any rate, I'd sooner buy a Kenwood cable than that other software and </p><p class=MsoNormal>> keep using Chirp.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hopefully I didn't get it mixed up with the Radioddity cable.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I thought I had the right cable with the Radioddity when I sent it off.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't know if they put the name of the associated radio on the cables, </p><p class=MsoNormal>> since I'm Blind.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> But any who, would this be an error for the wrong cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Thanks.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Glenn,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>From what you are describing it sounds like you Linux user doen't have</p><p class=MsoNormal>permission to access the port. Either run CHIRP as root or as your</p><p class=MsoNormal>Linus user to the dialout group.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also have a Kenwood TH-F6a. CHIRP programs it in "live" mode.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim KC9HI</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Glenn at glennervin@cableone.net</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to </p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Tony F at goldstar611@hotmail.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Glenn at glennervin@cableone.net</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>-------------- next part --------------</p><p class=MsoNormal>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</p><p class=MsoNormal>URL: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/attachments/20200522/915c634e/attachment-0001.html </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message: 6</p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 18:53:20 +0000</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Tony Fuller <goldstar611@hotmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Message-ID:</p><p class=MsoNormal> <DM6PR10MB30989AB35416EC739124FBB3EDB40@DM6PR10MB3098.namprd10.prod.outlook.com></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Glenn,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I always forget about persistence partitions on live USB drives! You can disregard most of what I said since it is probably not applicable ;)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tony.</p><p class=MsoNormal>________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com <chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com> on behalf of Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 1:47:40 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Tony,</p><p class=MsoNormal>I should have mentioned, that this is a live version of Ubuntu on a USB drive with a persistence file, so it should save settings between uses.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal>----- Original Message -----</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Tony Fuller<mailto:goldstar611@hotmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP<mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 1:15 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adding your user to dialout group only takes effect after you log out and log back in which is not practical for a live environment IIRC.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can use something like the following for live environments:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sudo -g dialout chirpw</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This gives the dialout group permission to chirpw program while running as the current user. But I don't see any advantage to doing that over plain "sudo chirpw" (what Jim recommended) unless you get X11/Wayland/Mir errors.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tony</p><p class=MsoNormal>________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com <chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com> on behalf of Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 12:57:34 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wondered about that, but I have used this computer and this Chirp program</p><p class=MsoNormal>to program other radios, but do you suppose the dialout thing needs to be</p><p class=MsoNormal>run with a different cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>This is a live instance of Ubuntu and I already added Ubuntu as the user in</p><p class=MsoNormal>dialout I am sure, because the CSV files for my other radios are there as</p><p class=MsoNormal>well.</p><p class=MsoNormal>That is what has me puzzled.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal>----- Original Message -----</p><p class=MsoNormal>From: "Jim Unroe" <rock.unroe@gmail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 12:51 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:06 PM Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I just got a new used radio, a Kenwood TH-F6.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> So I plugged in the radio using a non-Kenwood cable and I went into</p><p class=MsoNormal>> "radio" and download from radio and selected my radio model and USB0 and I</p><p class=MsoNormal>> get the message:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> error no 2 cannot open tty/usb0 error cannot locate tty/USB0.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> or something similar.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I have used this cable and that Ubuntu with Chirp in the past for my other</p><p class=MsoNormal>> radios, and other than different brands of radios, I have always been able</p><p class=MsoNormal>> to do this.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I know a guy who has done this to this model using the Baofeng cable using</p><p class=MsoNormal>> a different software in Windows, not the Kenwood software, but one that</p><p class=MsoNormal>> they purchased.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't recall the name, but I think it starts with an R.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> At any rate, I'd sooner buy a Kenwood cable than that other software and</p><p class=MsoNormal>> keep using Chirp.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hopefully I didn't get it mixed up with the Radioddity cable.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I thought I had the right cable with the Radioddity when I sent it off.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I don't know if they put the name of the associated radio on the cables,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> since I'm Blind.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> But any who, would this be an error for the wrong cable?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Thanks.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Glenn</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Glenn,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>From what you are describing it sounds like you Linux user doen't have</p><p class=MsoNormal>permission to access the port. Either run CHIRP as root or as your</p><p class=MsoNormal>Linus user to the dialout group.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also have a Kenwood TH-F6a. CHIRP programs it in "live" mode.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim KC9HI</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Glenn at glennervin@cableone.net</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Tony F at goldstar611@hotmail.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to Glenn at glennervin@cableone.net</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>-------------- next part --------------</p><p class=MsoNormal>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</p><p class=MsoNormal>URL: http://intrepid.danplanet.com/pipermail/chirp_users/attachments/20200522/2884354a/attachment-0001.html </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, send an email to chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>End of chirp_users Digest, Vol 137, Issue 18</p><p class=MsoNormal>********************************************</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>