Thank for your help. ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 (as my regular user) crw-rw—— 1 root dialout 188, 0 Mar 22 00:21 /dev/ttyUSB0
groups sam adm dialout cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare thx, sam kk4jzh > On Mar 22, 2019, at 2:00 PM, chirp_users-requ...@intrepid.danplanet.com 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
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