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Lyn Haddock

KXUSB with Linux - Success with Mint

Thanks to some helpful hints from several in the group, I found the solution to getting Linux (Mint 17 Qiana, Mate Edition) to work with the KXUSB adapter. Here is what was required…

- Click the MENU button and select the CONTROL CENTER

- Locate USERS AND GROUPS in the SYSTEM grouping

- Select your USER on the Users Settings screen if you have more than one user set up

- Select ADVANCED SETTINGS and Authenticate

- Select the USER PRIViLEGES tab

- Enable USE MODEMS by clicking the box

- OK and Close all the open screens and REBOOT or log out and back in

Your Elecraft Utility of choice should now find the proper port (/dev/ttyusb0 in my case) and be able to to connect via the KXUSB.

I took a quick look at Ubuntu 14.04 and didn’t find GUI options like Mint has to work with user groups. I suspect I would need to edit a file, perhaps having to do with “dialout” privileges. This is beyond my attention span since Mint is now working fine.

By the way, the Linux Elecraft Utilities (at least the ones I tried) are 32 bit applications. I installed 64 bit Mint 17 and could not get the Utilities to open at all until I installed the 32 bit libraries for Mint. I used the commands suggested by David - W4DES, shown at the bottom of this link…

http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/linux-K3-utility-td7589395.html <http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/linux-K3-utility-td7589395.html>

This installation went fine and then the Utilities would open. There is a 32 bit version of Mint 17 available for download, and I suspect it would work as installed.

Thanks again for the helpful replies.

73 and Have Fun!

Lyn - KC8I

PS - After finding this USER PROCESSES screen, I probably can figure out why some other things don't work for me on Linux. There are numerous other boxes you can check to enable “stuff” that might be necessary.

> I’m trying to connect my KX3/PX3 rig to a Linux computer to use the Utility programs. I’m have tried to connect to two different computers running both Mint 17 and Ubuntu 14.04 with no luck so far.
>
> From what I can tell, these Linux distros should both natively support FTDI chips for VCP connections. The FTDI site confirms this and only provides instructions for replacing the VCP driver with a D2XX driver.
>
> I can see the FTDI device using “lsusb” when plug the KXUSB in. However, the KXUSB apparently can’t connect to /dev/ttyusb0 to let me use the KX3 or PX3 Utilities.
>
> When i unplug the KXUSB from the USB port on either Linux box and plug it into my Mac, all is well. It even works when I reboot the same PC to WIN7 instead of Ubuntu. What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Lyn - KC8I

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pa0pje

Re: KXUSB with Linux - Success with Mint

I have got it working in Ubuntu 12.04 64bit.
Indeed you need to add yourself to the dialout group and have the 32bit
libraries.

It is an item that should be the system settings window under user
accounts but as I wrote before in the reflector:

I had the same issue in Ubuntu Linux. The reason was that by default
only root has access to /dev/ttyUSB0.
If you add yourself to the group "dialout" like this:

In a terminal do at the ~$ prompt:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout <username>

where <username> should be your name as shown on the prompt before the $...

type your password...

log out then log in again and start the utility. By then it should work
ok. At least to me it did....:-)

Canonical seems not to like people to mess around with group policies
therefore leaves out a gui application to set them.

-As far as I know group policy settings are back again in Ubuntu 14.04
but as that has other less likable bugs I still use 12.04 and
Gnome-session-fallback (yes: I don't like Unity)

73,
Peter - PA0PJE

Op 2014-11-07 19:15 schreef Lyn Haddock:

> Thanks to some helpful hints from several in the group, I found the solution to getting Linux (Mint 17 Qiana, Mate Edition) to work with the KXUSB adapter. Here is what was required…
>
> - Click the MENU button and select the CONTROL CENTER
>
> - Locate USERS AND GROUPS in the SYSTEM grouping
>
> - Select your USER on the Users Settings screen if you have more than one user set up
>
> - Select ADVANCED SETTINGS and Authenticate
>
> - Select the USER PRIViLEGES tab
>
> - Enable USE MODEMS by clicking the box
>
> - OK and Close all the open screens and REBOOT or log out and back in
>
> Your Elecraft Utility of choice should now find the proper port (/dev/ttyusb0 in my case) and be able to to connect via the KXUSB.
>

Nate Bargmann

Re: KXUSB with Linux - Success with Mint

In reply to this post by Lyn Haddock

Good to hear, Lyn.

73, Nate N0NB

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