Who has tested the FT2DR radio with linux?

What USB cable did you use?

My spidey senses are telling me no one has tested this combination.

Chirp works fine with my FT7900 and a FTDI cable.

It appears the cable provided with the FT2DR is not a 232 converter.

I am also guessing that there is a PL2303 chip in the radio. (Yaesu provides PL2303 drivers for windows.)

Problem is it does not identify itself as such so Linux does not know what to do with it.

this is the output of lsusb with the radio plugged in and turned on

rick@rick-ham ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5111 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0c45:7412 Microdia
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 26aa:0001                  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< this is the radio, no ID
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

NOTE - This device disappears when the send button on the radio is activated and the radio reports an Error.



This is the output of lsusb with the cord unplugged at the radio (cord still plugged into computer)

rick@rick-ham ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5111 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0c45:7412 Microdia
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Given this, I conclude this is an "empty" straight through USB cable.

I can't use https://github.com//torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c
because the chip does not identify.

Am I trying to use the wrong cable? It's possible I mixed up the cable with another or I received a defective cable.
Yaesu does not offer a cable as an accy, so I can't buy a new one retail.



This is the output of isusb with my FT7900 cable connected

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5111 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0c45:7412 Microdia
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC   <<<<This is it
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

This is my RT Systems cable connected

rick@rick-ham ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5111 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0c45:7412 Microdia
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 2100:9068 RT Systems
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

rick@rick-ham ~ $ ls /dev | grep tty
tty        tty0        tty1        tty10        tty11        tty12        tty13        tty14        tty15        tty16        tty17
tty18    tty19       tty2        tty20        tty21        tty22        tty23        tty24        tty25        tty26        tty27
tty28    tty29       tty3        tty30        tty31        tty32        tty33        tty34        tty35        tty36        tty37
tty38    tty39       tty4        tty40        tty41        tty42        tty43        tty44        tty45        tty46        tty47
tty48    tty49       tty5        tty50        tty51        tty52        tty53        tty54        tty55        tty56        tty57
tty58    tty59       tty6        tty60        tty61        tty62        tty63        tty7          tty8         tty9          ttyprintk
ttyS0    ttyS1      ttyS10    ttyS11      ttyS12      ttyS13     ttyS14      ttyS15      ttyS16     ttyS17      ttyS18
ttyS19   ttyS2     ttyS20    ttyS21      ttyS22      ttyS23     ttyS24      ttyS25      ttyS26     ttyS27      ttyS28
ttyS29   ttyS3     ttyS30    ttyS31      ttyS4        ttyS5       ttyS6        ttyS7       ttyS8       ttyS9

Not recognised

Also I see that Yaesu has different ADMS software for the new firmware version that was just released.
My spidey senses tell me that Chirp won't work with the new firmware. So this may all be for naught.