[Elecraft] KXUSB with Linux - Success with Mint

[Peter Eijlander (PA0PJE)]

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
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> - 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.
>