[Linux-ham] USB cable no longer working to program CS-800

[Matt Flyer]

I'm not personally familiar with this radio (haven't gotten into DMR).
 However, I did consult the great oracle about this and maybe a fresh
set of eyes will help, or not.

I found a couple of links discussing updating the firmware, which looks
like it is needed unless your radio is Sept or newer (I assume it means
Sept 2016).  I also saw some comments about having trouble reading the
device meaning that it needs a new Windows driver / and or firmware.  

So with that being said, this is one area I might look into.

Here are the links I saw:
http://cs800.blogspot.com/2015/09/cs800-upgrade-your-code-plug-open-cps
.html

and

http://cs800.blogspot.com/2015/07/cs800-read-and-write-to-radio.html



On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 22:12 -0500, Eric Christensen wrote:
> This all worked at the end of December...
> 
> My Connect Systems CS-800 mobile radio has a fancy USB to 15-pin
> cable
> used for flashing the firmware and programming the radio.  Because
> I've
> not been successful in getting the programming software to run under
> WINE I've got a Windows 7 VM running in QEMU/KVM (Fedora 25).
> 
> When I plug the cable in and redirect the USB device in QEMU over to
> the
> VM Windows gives me a nice "thunk" noise.  It is registering the
> device
> in the device manager as a "USB Mass Storage Device" (not sure if
> this
> is what it should be doing) and all looks happy.  But I get a
> "Communications error, Please retry!" message whenever I try to read
> from the radio.
> 
> Running the software under WINE gives me the same result.
> 
> Here's my troubleshooting:
> 
> $ lsusb
> Bus 003 Device 046: ID 0483:5720 STMicroelectronics STM microSD Flash
> Device
> 
> T:  Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 18 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
> D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
> P:  Vendor=0483 ProdID=5720 Rev=02.00
> S:  Manufacturer=STMicroelectronics
> S:  Product=Mass Storage in FS Mode
> S:  SerialNumber=00000000001B
> C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA
> I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-
> storage
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
> usb-STM_microSD_Flash_00000000001B-0:0 -> ../../sdb
> 
> $ sudo file -s /dev/sdb
> /dev/sdb: writable, no read permission
> 
> $ ll /dev/sdb
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 Jan 25 21:34 /dev/sdb
> 
> It's the "writable, no read permission" that is concerning
> me.  Anyone
> have any ideas about this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 73,
> Eric WG3K
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