On Saturday 25 September 2021 14:11:30 Martin McCormick wrote: > Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> writes: > > Possibly a known kernel bug. > > > > https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/538695-USB-driver-Zero-Le > >ngth-Descriptor > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1507709452-31260-1-git-send-email-msala > >u...@iotecha.com/ > > > > -- > > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > > > https://charlescurley.com > > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > > Thank you. That's got to be it. I've been doing debian Linux since > right around 2000 but I must admit that I don't know the easiest > way to include the patch referenced in the second link. > > I will need to do that on an i86 box plus the Raspberry Pi > I first discovered the issue on since I am apt to have the radio > connected to either system and, if this problem is fixable, this > solution is preferable because the radio defaults to using the > usbC port as the serial port so it should still work if a full > reset is ever needed and the mechanism for usb should naturally > accept as many different devices as practical because you never > know what you will need to connect until you try it and it fails. > > As an amusing aside, the radio has a usb mode, but > that's totally unrelated because in that case, USB stands for > upper side band and is a very energy-efficient method of radio > communication because it is only a spectrum of frequencies > consisting of the sidebands of an audio signal without the > carrier. It can be LSB or lower side band or USB for upper side > band. Nothing like a few new acronyms for your day. I guess that's > TMI.
You forgot to mention it can get the message thru better because it has a 12 db advantage over competing noise compared to the original AM, sometimes called Ancient Mary in our circles. > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>