Geoffrey,

No driver needed. USB serial devices are detected by the kernel.

It's very easy. Just edit the /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/ttyUSB0 or 1 whichever was detected. 

Do a 
ls -alt /dev/ttyU* 
in a terminal window to find which device it used after you've plugged in the cable.

You'll get something like this:
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jul 27 16:18 /dev/ttyUSB0

Make sure your user is part of the dialout group to avoid having to run Chirp as root.

Enjoy,

Marc-Andre, Ve2evn


From: "chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com" <chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com>
To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com
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Subject: chirp_users Digest, Vol 43, Issue 21

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:15:51 -0400
From: "Geoffrey K. Phillips" <gphillips13@centurylink.net>
Subject: [chirp_users] Using CHIRP with UBUNTU
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Hi there,

Well, I got CHIRP to work fine with my handy little Baofeng UV-5R on
Windows XP. [well done fellows !!]

I now have it running on UBUNTU, except it looks for a tty(x) driver, and I
use a USB cable.

What do I have to do so that I can use this cable? Do I need a Linux driver?
And if so, where do I get one?

Thank you a lot,

Geoffrey



Geofrey K. Phillips
gphillips13@centurylink.net
WD4LYO