I tried the FT857 patches again with today's tip of tree and I still get a failure:

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1. Had to edit all patches to remove the a/ and b/ from the file paths

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2. common patch worked ok per email "[chirp_devel] [PATCH 1 of 4] Add "valid_cross_modes" to    RadioFeatures"

patch -p0 < chirp-common.patch
patching file chirp/chirp_common.py
Hunk #1 succeeded at 546 (offset -2 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 646 (offset -2 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 765 (offset -2 lines).
patching file chirpui/memedit.py

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3. FT857 patch didn't work per email "[chirp_devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] Set valid_cross_modes as needed"
I assume we have to have the file first but it doesn't apply cleanly either way

# patch -p0 < ft857.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- chirp/ft857.py     Sat Jan 21 09:59:33 2012 +0100
|+++ chirp/ft857.py     Sat Jan 21 10:00:34 2012 +0100
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File to patch: ^C

cp chirp/ft817.py chirp/ft857.py
# patch -p0 < ft857.patch
patching file chirp/ft857.py
Hunk #1 FAILED at 109.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file chirp/ft857.py.rej

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4. Patching runtests ok per email "[chirp_devel] [PATCH 4 of 4] Use valid_cross_modes during test"
though it doesn't talk about HUNKS

patch -p0 < run-tests.patch
patching file tests/run_tests

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5. I did NOT apply the "merge" patch via email "[chirp_devel] [PATCH 3 of 4] merge" from the recommendation of Dan

What am I missing?

--David

David Ranch wrote:

Hey Dan, Marco,

Ok, I'll try out the patches tonight assuming that I can get that RT Systems cable working under the FTDI driver:

   Dan: Two questions:

       1. To test the RT cable, do you know of a simple text string to send to the 857 to see if it's properly receiving and I get a known response back?

       2. I'm assuming I can download the newest nightly snapshot and apply Marco's emailed patches (except his "merge" patch) or do I need to use a different version of Chirp?

--David