Re: [Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

2008-06-14 Thread Dick Roth KA1OZ
Brendan Minish wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 11:14 +0100, David Woolley (E.L) wrote: Brendan, this was way too simple! I found that I had to execute k3util as root, otherwise it wouldn't open the ttyUSB0 port. I cannot think of any good reason why this would be necessary, and as a matter of po

Re: [Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

2008-06-14 Thread Brendan Minish
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 11:14 +0100, David Woolley (E.L) wrote: > > Brendan, this was way too simple! I found that I had to execute k3util > > as root, otherwise it wouldn't open the ttyUSB0 port. > > I cannot think of any good reason why this would be necessary, and as a > matter of policy one

Re: [Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

2008-06-14 Thread Brendan Minish
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:02 -0400, Dick Roth KA1OZ wrote: > John R. Lonigro wrote: > > Dick: > > Go to /dev (as root) and open up the permissions on ttyUSB0. Then you > > can access USB0 without being root. The default is rw access for root > > only. I had to do a similar thing when accessing

Re: [Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

2008-06-14 Thread Dick Roth KA1OZ
John R. Lonigro wrote: Dick: Go to /dev (as root) and open up the permissions on ttyUSB0. Then you can access USB0 without being root. The default is rw access for root only. I had to do a similar thing when accessing ttyS0 with my K2. Unfortunately, every time I reboot, I have to do this al

Re: [Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

2008-06-14 Thread David Woolley (E.L)
Dick Roth KA1OZ wrote: Brendan Minish wrote: prolific support is in the 2.6 kernels, I have yet to meet a USB driver that isn't plug and play under modern 2.6 kernels. no additional drivers required In general, USB TTY devices ought to comply with the relevant USB device class and ought not

Re: [Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

2008-06-13 Thread Dick Roth KA1OZ
Brendan Minish wrote: prolific support is in the 2.6 kernels, I have yet to meet a USB driver that isn't plug and play under modern 2.6 kernels. no additional drivers required Plug it in and it should appear as /dev/ttyUSB0 (assuming it's the first USB serial device ) dmesg will show you mo

Re: [Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

2008-06-13 Thread Brendan Minish
prolific support is in the 2.6 kernels, I have yet to meet a USB driver that isn't plug and play under modern 2.6 kernels. no additional drivers required Plug it in and it should appear as /dev/ttyUSB0 (assuming it's the first USB serial device ) dmesg will show you more If you need some more

[Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

2008-06-13 Thread Dick Roth KA1OZ
Hi there-- My main pc runs a variant of Red Hat Linux (CentOS 5.1). Has anyone been able to properly install the KUSB (drivers) on a Linux box? The Prolific site has a driver that I've heard only works with the 2.4 kernel. Has anyone had any luck using the KUSB with a 2.6 kernel? ttfn & -