On May 4, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
After a few minutes, an error popup reports "An error has occured, ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found". Here's the entire console stack trace:
That sounds like either (a) you're not using the right device for that serial port, or (b) the connector isn't fully seated into the radio and thus you're getting no data through.
You might open a serial console on that device. At any baud rate, you should see an echo of every key you type. If local echo is enabled in your terminal, then you'll see double.
If you keep the terminal at 19200 baud and hit the clone TX button on your radio, you should see it fire "AH021" or something similar to the terminal. If it doesn't, then you know that it's between your machine and the radio somewhere and not CHIRP-related.
Well, I get characters echoed, but no output from the radio in TX mode. I'll have to dig out another machine to see if this is a driver issue or cable issue. Thanks for the help!