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

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From: "chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com" chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 3:00 PM 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 To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Message-ID: 5012DAD7.22500.D82DA20@gphillips13.centurylink.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

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