USB Ports - For communication software. Do I need drivers?

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Unable to get communication software to work with my transceiver. There are no ttyUSB ports being listed.

2

Please keep your questions about this problem in one thread. Probably people in a WSJTX forum can give you better advice.

I'm not familar with this problem. I only found the solution to add your user to the group dialout and to remove/disable brltty.

I'm not sure if it works with these commands

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
or
sudo usermod -a -G tty $USER

(replace $USER with your username)

Then logout and login again.

sudo apt remove brltty

or if it is not possible try

sudo systemctl stop brltty-udev.service
sudo systemctl mask brltty-udev.service
sudo systemctl stop brltty.service
sudo systemctl disable brltty.service

3

Could You tell what Software You use?

4

WSJTX and Kenwood Transceiver. Kenwood has built in sound card.
For that matter, any software that commnicates with the Kenwood.

Have tried all of the above.
Will get on the WSJTX forum.

5

lsusb command does not report silicon labs cp210x.
What to do next.
Silicon Labs cp210x is what Kenwood uses for the VCP (Virtual Com Ports)

6

This is the output.

k1rqs@k1rqs-Zorin18:~$ rmmod cp210x; modprobe cp210x debug
rmmod: ERROR: Module cp210x is not currently loaded
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'cp210x': Operation not permitted
k1rqs@k1rqs-Zorin18:~$

Can't use the software till this gets fixed.

7

Got it working. It is amazing when one touches nothing, and we assume all is well as it was working last time to not check or verify the obvious.

In my case, the USB cable from the Kenwood transceiver was not connected at the computer. Plug it back in and all is well. Thanks to all who responded.

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