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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi Tony,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Glenn</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=goldstar611@hotmail.com href="mailto:goldstar611@hotmail.com">Tony
Fuller</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com
href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">Discussion of CHIRP</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 22, 2020 1:15 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error</DIV></DIV>
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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.<BR><BR></DIV>
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can use something like the following for live environments:<BR><BR></DIV>
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-g dialout chirpw <BR><BR></DIV>
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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.<SPAN
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face="Calibri, sans-serif"><B>From:</B>
chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com
<chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com> on behalf of Glenn K0LNY
<glennervin@cableone.net><BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 22, 2020 12:57:34
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Discussion of CHIRP
<chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [chirp_users]
No USB Port Error</FONT>
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<DIV class=PlainText>I wondered about that, but I have used this computer and
this Chirp program <BR>to program other radios, but do you suppose the dialout
thing needs to be <BR>run with a different cable?<BR>This is a live instance of
Ubuntu and I already added Ubuntu as the user in <BR>dialout I am sure, because
the CSV files for my other radios are there as <BR>well.<BR>That is what has me
puzzled.<BR>Glenn<BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Jim Unroe"
<rock.unroe@gmail.com><BR>To: "Discussion of CHIRP"
<chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com><BR>Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 12:51
PM<BR>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] No USB Port Error<BR><BR><BR>On Fri, May 22,
2020 at 1:06 PM Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net>
wrote:<BR>><BR>> Hi,<BR>> I just got a new used radio, a Kenwood
TH-F6.<BR>> So I plugged in the radio using a non-Kenwood cable and I went
into <BR>> "radio" and download from radio and selected my radio model and
USB0 and I <BR>> get the message:<BR>> error no 2 cannot open tty/usb0
error cannot locate tty/USB0.<BR>> or something similar.<BR>> I have used
this cable and that Ubuntu with Chirp in the past for my other <BR>> radios,
and other than different brands of radios, I have always been able <BR>> to
do this.<BR>> I know a guy who has done this to this model using the Baofeng
cable using <BR>> a different software in Windows, not the Kenwood software,
but one that <BR>> they purchased.<BR>> I don't recall the name, but I
think it starts with an R.<BR>> At any rate, I'd sooner buy a Kenwood cable
than that other software and <BR>> keep using Chirp.<BR>> Hopefully I
didn't get it mixed up with the Radioddity cable.<BR>> I thought I had the
right cable with the Radioddity when I sent it off.<BR>> I don't know if they
put the name of the associated radio on the cables, <BR>> since I'm
Blind.<BR>> But any who, would this be an error for the wrong cable?<BR>>
Thanks.<BR>> Glenn<BR><BR>Hi Glenn,<BR><BR>>From what you are describing
it sounds like you Linux user doen't have<BR>permission to access the port.
Either run CHIRP as root or as your<BR>Linus user to the dialout group.<BR><BR>I
also have a Kenwood TH-F6a. CHIRP programs it in "live" mode.<BR><BR>Jim
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