On 05/12/2015 07:20 PM, Ryan Tourge wrote:
if you are getting the same issue as a fella with a a cable issue I would bet that your cable doesn't have the right driver installed. Tell us more about the cable.
It's Linux, so it doesn't have the mess of driver issues that the Prolific chipsets (and clones) have on Windows.
The fact that, unlike Ben, I do get the expected text from the radio is encouraging. Of course, it doesn't tell me that anything sent *to* the radio is getting there, but at least we know something's [at least mostly] working in one direction.
The cable was bought from KAWAMALL on eBay. lsusb shows: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
Today's build (20150513) shows this run:
======================================================================= charles@charles:~$ chirpw
(process:7774): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. ERROR: -- Exception: -- ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/ui/clone.py", line 238, in run self.__radio.sync_in() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/ft7800.py", line 327, in sync_in self.check_checksums() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/yaesu_clone.py", line 222, in check_checksums if checksum.get_existing(self._mmap) != \ File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/yaesu_clone.py", line 168, in get_existing return ord(mmap[self._address]) TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found
ERROR: ---------------- ERROR: Clone failed: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found ERROR: --- Exception Dialog: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found --- ERROR: None
ERROR: ---------------------------- charles@charles:~$ =======================================================================