[Elecraft] KUSB on Linux machine??

Dick Roth KA1OZ raroth7 at comcast.net
Sat Jun 14 10:02:34 EDT 2008


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 all over again.  I 
> probably need to put it in a startup file somewhere.
> 
> 73's,
> 
> John AA0VE
> 
> Dick Roth KA1OZ 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 performsed a download of the latest firmware without any hitches.
>>
> 

Thanks for the tip, John.  Works like a champ now.  Sometimes I forget 
about permissions and ownership.  Have a great weekend!

ttfn &
-- 
73,
Dick ka1oz
Middleborough, MA

K3/100(Kit) SN 000859
Titan-DX


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