I will look into this. In the meantime, as I do not know which email to hang
this news off of, I will put it here. Here is a (4 star for some reason)
comment on the FTDI cable I bought:
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B015YEM5C2/ref=acr_dp_hist_4?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=four_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar
> I bought this cable after many, many owners of the Baofeng radios stated to
> purchase the more expensive cable over the lesser priced cables. My
> experience was interesting, many owners of these types of cables stated that
> "they just work with linux with no additional software or support." (besides
> Chirp) and frankly as a Linux user that's what drew me to this product. Long
> story short, this did not work with Chirp in Linux, even after updating to
> the newest version of Chirp. I even downloaded and created a Chirp Live CD.
> That did not work either.
ANd so I have ordered a different FTDI cable now: BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB
Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio. The
description states:
> Drivers are available which allow FTDI devices to work with the following
> operating systems: Windows, Max OSX, and Linux
Thank you for all of the responses! I will try to install python-future, per
your instructions, although pip says it is already installed.
Robert
On 4/7/21 4:06 PM, wa0...@kslimmer.com wrote:
> Download it.
>
> ["https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/python-future/download";](https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/python-future/download)
>
> "sudo dpkg -i python-future_0.15.2-4ubuntu2_all.deb"
>
> On 4/7/21 2:15 PM, Robert Withers via chirp_users wrote:
>
>> I ran this command, found on web to install python-future, as the apt
>> install command was unable to locate package python-future.
>>
>>> rabbit@ganymede:~$ pip install future
>>> Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not
>>> writeable
>>> Requirement already satisfied: future in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
>>> (0.18.2)
>>> WARNING: You are using pip version 20.2.4; however, version 21.0.1 is
>>> available.
>>> You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/bin/python3 -m pip install
>>> --upgrade pip' command.
>>
>> I ran the two commands you specified. The output is attached. In the syslog
>> file, the first 3 lines are unplug, the rest are due to replugging in the
>> FTDI cable. Here seems to be the pertinent line from syslog;
>>
>>> Apr 7 15:06:08 ganymede ModemManager[1098]: <info> Couldn't check support
>>> for device '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1.3':
>>> not supported by any plugin
>>
>> Not sure what move to make now.
>>
>> Kindly,
>> Robert
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