I have been using Chirp with a Wouun KG-UV3D and USB cable for a couple months with no problems. Thanks for the useful utility.
Today I finished up a mobile install of a Kenwood TV-V71A radio. I tried the stable version of Chirp (0.1.12) and also the daily build from Feb 9. When the program attempts to identify the radio it tells me that it is unable to probe the radio model.
The odd thing is that it is printing the "V71" string which seems to indicate that there was some successful communication taking place.
I am running this with a laptop running Ubuntu 11.04 and using he Kenwood USB to serial cable KPG-46U. I also have available a laptop running RHEL 6.2 but have not tried that yet.
Any hints appreciated. Terminal trace info follows. Thanks & 73, Dale, K7FW -------------------
dale@dale-T42:~/AmateurRadio/chirp-0.1.12$ python chirpw CHIRP 0.1.12 on Linux - Ubuntu 11.04 PC->V71: ID V71->PC: PC->V71: ID V71->PC: PC->V71: ID V71->PC: PC->V71: ID V71->PC: --- Exception Dialog: Unable to probe radio model --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/dale/AmateurRadio/chirp-0.1.12/chirpui/clone.py", line 167, in run cs.radio_class = detect.DETECT_FUNCTIONS[vendor](cs.port) File "/home/dale/AmateurRadio/chirp-0.1.12/chirp/detect.py", line 103, in detect_kenwoodlive_radio raise errors.RadioError("Unable to probe radio model") RadioError: Unable to probe radio model ---------------------------- ^CTraceback (most recent call last): File "chirpw", line 69, in <module> gtk.main() KeyboardInterrupt dale@dale-T42:~/AmateurRadio/chirp-0.1.12$
dale@dale-T42:~/AmateurRadio/chirp-daily-02092012$ python chirpw CHIRP daily-02092012 on Linux - Ubuntu 11.04 (Python 2.7.1+) PC->V71: ID V71->PC: PC->V71: ID V71->PC: PC->V71: ID V71->PC: PC->V71: ID V71->PC: --- Exception Dialog: Unable to probe radio model --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/dale/AmateurRadio/chirp-daily-02092012/chirpui/clone.py", line 164, in run cs.radio_class = detect.DETECT_FUNCTIONS[vendor](cs.port) File "/home/dale/AmateurRadio/chirp-daily-02092012/chirp/detect.py", line 103, in detect_kenwoodlive_radio raise errors.RadioError("Unable to probe radio model") RadioError: Unable to probe radio model