Today, 13:07 -0000, Louis Cashmer wrote: > All, > > I am hoping someone else has been down this or a similar road. I have > already checked out the Wine forums. I have an ID1 and I am trying to > get the ICOM ID1 control software under Linux. The gui looks great > but I can not communicate via the Ubuntu 9.04 X64 system.
Louis, The ID-1 control software, only knows about "COM:" devices which under linux are the /dev/ttyS.... On the other hand, the FTDI chip is seen by linux as a /dev/ttyUSB... Assuming that you only have one such device connected on your system, it will be /dev/ttyUSB0. What you have to do is to link to some ttyS device. Say you ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyS4 The ID-1 control software will be able to connect to COM5. You also need to make sure that you have read/write access to the device. Under most recent distributions, those device will grant R/W access to members of the group "uucp". If needed, you edit /etc/group to be included in that group. Here's how it shows on my system where I have the ID-1 control software running on COM5: [...@localhost]$ ls -la /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 aoû 1 16:12 /dev/ttyUSB0 [...@localhost]$ ls -la /dev/ttyS4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 jui 27 20:45 /dev/ttyS4 -> /dev/ttyUSB0 [...@localhost]$ grep uucp /etc/group uucp:x:14:uucp,prt (Note that under Windows it's exactly the same: USB serial devices are turned into COM ports and it is the COM port number that you actually configure in the ID-1 control software. The only difference is that Windows automatically assign a COM port number for the USB serial interfaces.) '73 - Pierre __ Pierre Thibaudeau VA2RKA/VA2RKB/VE2RIO/VE2RVR/VE2RQF/VE2RTO/VE2LKL/VE2TXD sysadmin
