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Baofeng Programming Cable

 

I'm running Mint 21.3 and 22 (in a second machine). I had to jump through? some python hoops to get chirp to run. It seems there was a name change in an update. The solution involved downgrading to python 3.10 from 3.12 (if I have the numbers right).
And still, chirp doesn't work with the Baofeng cable provided by Baofeng. The symptoms are that chirp can't see any serial ports that work in Linux, or so it appears to my inexperienced eyes.
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Does anyone have hands on experience with the Btech cable with Linux? This cable:
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Got the radio programmed by a local ham with his cable and a Windows machine. But I can't download the .img file to make any changes, as in scan choices or adding channels.
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73, Robin KK7MSN
 

And still, chirp doesn't work with the Baofeng cable provided by Baofeng. The symptoms are that chirp can't see any serial ports that work in Linux, or so it appears to my inexperienced eyes.
Hi Robin,
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Assuming you did this...
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...did you do the part about "Serial port permissions" which will give you access to the serial ports?
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Not sure what you mean about CHIRP "can't see any serial ports that work". Could you describe the error message, or maybe a screen shot?
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on linux the user needs to e part of the "dialout" group to work with serial ports.

I don't remember the? exact command(s) to see what groups the user is part of, or the command to add the user to the dialout group.

/s/ Bill Turner, wb4alm


On 10/19/24 07:16, Dave, KZ1O via groups.io wrote:

And still, chirp doesn't work with the Baofeng cable provided by Baofeng. The symptoms are that chirp can't see any serial ports that work in Linux, or so it appears to my inexperienced eyes.
Hi Robin,
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Assuming you did this...
?
?
...did you do the part about "Serial port permissions" which will give you access to the serial ports?
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Not sure what you mean about CHIRP "can't see any serial ports that work". Could you describe the error message, or maybe a screen shot?
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The commend 'id' will list your user id number, the groups you belong to, and other se_linux stuff. You will need to belong to "dialout" as you state, and as I recall the command is 'groupmod -U username' but I am not certain on that one. I usually just edit /etc/group, then log out and back in again. Another useful command is 'lsusb' which will list all the USB devices it sees. Do one before plugging in your cable, and another after and see what was added.
 

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Hi,

User this command to add your userid to the dialout group:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout {username}

Logout and login.? 

73,
Ron / W4MMP
On 10/19/2024 13:59, Al - KD2PNR via groups.io wrote:

The commend 'id' will list your user id number, the groups you belong to, and other se_linux stuff. You will need to belong to "dialout" as you state, and as I recall the command is 'groupmod -U username' but I am not certain on that one. I usually just edit /etc/group, then log out and back in again. Another useful command is 'lsusb' which will list all the USB devices it sees. Do one before plugging in your cable, and another after and see what was added.
 

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Robin.

In a command line session, (ctl alt T)

sudo adduser $USER dialout

You will be asked for your password, it will then either add you (the logged in user) to the dialout group, or tell if you are already a member.

Like this....
dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~/3rdParty/3500A firmware$ sudo adduser $USER dialout
[sudo] password for dave:      
adduser: The user `dave' is already a member of `dialout'.
Either way, Job done.


Then, still in that command line session.

dmesg -wH

(A lot of 'stuff' will fly up the screen and stop....)

Then plug in the offending lead, and you should see what the OS identifies and enumerates it as.
such, and display this sort of info.? I don't know for sure, but you may need it connected to the
radio, and the radio powered ON, before you plug it into the computer.

But you should see this sort of info appear...
(There may be spurious other messages, especially if you PC/Laptop is using WiFi.)
[Oct20 11:20] usb 1-1.5.4: new full-speed USB device number 22 using ehci-pci
[  +0.109452] usb 1-1.5.4: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303, bcdDevice= 4.00
[  +0.000010] usb 1-1.5.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  +0.000003] usb 1-1.5.4: Product: USB-Serial Controller D
[  +0.000003] usb 1-1.5.4: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc. 
[  +0.000339] pl2303 1-1.5.4:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[  +0.001539] usb 1-1.5.4: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB7
It is 'ttyUSB7' that you tell Chirp about, in this case.? (Your case it will likely be a different device...)

If you see red messages, that generally is because the OS can't identify it correctly, or cant find a kernel driver to use for it.
Or sometimes a hardware fault with an otherwise good device.

Hope something helps.

Dave G0WBX

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