I believe it is usually the "dialout" group. > On 21 March 2019 at 19:37 "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n...@arrl.net> wrote: > > Sam, > > Please do this: > > ls -l /dev/ ttyUSB0 > > Send back the output. > > Also send back the output of this when you are using your user (regular) > account: > > groups > > It is important that you are in the group that owns /dev/ttyUSB0 > > I'm not using Ubuntu but Arch Linux, but here is my output to show you: > > ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Mar 21 09:40 /dev/ttyUSB0 > > [djringjr@n1ea ~]$ groups > video uucp wheel djringjr > > I've made uucp bold so you can see the important part. > > I believe /dev/ttyUSB0 in Ubuntu is owned by root tty - don't change it! > Just make sure you are a member of whatever group that owns /dev/ttyUSB0. > > Different distros handle devices slightly differently. The point is that > if you are executing CHIRP and you are not a member of the group that owns > the /dev/ttyUSB0 device, it will not work. > > To add a user to a group - whatever group owns the ttyUSB0 - > > sudo adduser user group > > Where user is your user name and group is the group that owns ttyUSB0 > > > > 73 > DR > N1EA > > > > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Nigel Gunn, W8IFF at ni...@ngunn.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to > chirp_users-unsubscr...@intrepid.danplanet.com >
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