I worked out how to edit the driver file and changed to 799 to match the radio.
Now it reads to 799 and displays Completed getting memory 799 (idle) in the status bar
Exception in thread Thread-9:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/ui/common.py", line 261, in run
job.execute(self.radio)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/ui/bankedit.py", line 40, in execute
self.__editor.mappings.append((mapping, mapping.get_name()))
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/ic9x.py", line 59, in get_name
banks = self._model._radio._ic9x_get_banks()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/ic9x.py", line 233, in _ic9x_get_banks
banks = ic9x_ll.get_banks(self.pipe, self.vfo)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/ic9x_ll.py", line 530, in get_banks
rframes = frame.send(pipe)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/chirp/drivers/ic9x_ll.py", line 174, in send
raise errors.InvalidDataError("No response from radio")
InvalidDataError: No response from radio