On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 21:27:24 +0100
Ervin Hegedüs <airw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:02:07PM -0500, Ed wrote:
> > I'm using an Icom 7200 with a USB cable from the rig to the pc. This
> > is what I'm using to define the port::
> >
> > /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Silicon_Labs_CP2102_USB_to_UART_Bridge
> >
> > of course that does not work and that is the only choice I know of.
> >
> > Work around ?
>
> I don't know the rig above, I just Google'd some info's.
>
> I see, the rig has an USB connector - but I assume that it's a
> serial converter (which is probably true, the USB_to_UART in your
> name of device affects that too).
>
> If that true, the most simple way, that you unplug the converter
> from PC, and reconnect, till you see the syslog/messages file.
> You'll see some kind of these lines:
>
> [235784.268109] usb 5-1: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB3
>
> then you can set up in your logcfg.dat these:
>
> RADIO_CONTROL
> RIGMODEL=361
> RIGSPEED=19200
> RIGPORT=/dev/ttyUSB3
>
> of course, the RIGPORT is what you see in your log.
>
> You can fix the device through the udev:
>
> type this command:
> sudo udevadm
> info /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Silicon_Labs_CP2102_USB_to_UART_Bridge
>
> you'll see something like this:
>
> P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/ttyUSB3/tty/ttyUSB3
> N: ttyUSB3
> S: serial/by-id/usb-1a86_USB2.0-Serial-if00-port0
> S: serial/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.3-usb-0:1:1.0-port0
> ...
> E: ID_MODEL_ID=7523
> E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.3-usb-0:1:1.0
> E: ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_00_1d_3-usb-0_1_1_0
> E: ID_REVISION=0254
> E: ID_SERIAL=1a86_USB2.0-Serial
> E: ID_TYPE=generic
> ...
> E: ID_VENDOR=1a86
> E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=1a86
>
>
> by those lines, you can write an own rule for udev:
>
> sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/z21_persistent-local.rules
>
> edit the file, and put these fields, of course replace to your
> output:
>
> ATTRS{idProduct}=="7523", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1a86", SYMLINK+="rig"
>
> Then:
>
> sudo udevadm control --reload
>
>
> In this case, if you'll connect your rig to your PC (which has
> that udev rule), you will see that as "/dev/rig", and you can
> talk with from any application (of course, you have to replace
> the /dev/ttyUSBX in Tlf logcfg.dat file too).
>
>
> Hope that's clear - let me know, if you have any question.
>
>
>
> 73, Ervin
>
>
Thank you for the precise directions. I'll work on this tomorrow.
73
Ed W3NR
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