Prolific Cable Setup in linux with Tunerstudio

[jrroy1984]

I have an Eee PC with a prolific based converter. I have checked, and the device is being bound to /dev/ttyUSB0, but I cannot communicate in TunerStudio. Is there any howto or FAQ to point me in the right direction. I've seen a few people on here that are using a prolific with tunerstudio, so i must be doing something wrong.

[LT401Vette]

The windows Prolific driver has an ugly bug that can cause a BSOD, but in Linux it should work fine.
There are only a couple catches that might get you, but this would be with any cable.
- You need to have Lock privileges for serial. On most Linux flavors this just means your user should be in the uucp group. Some flavors like Fedora have a lock group.
- If you are running a 64 bit kernel and JRE, copy the driver from:
[TunerStudioInstallDir]/lib/alternativeLinuxDrivers/x86_64-Linux/
to the:
[TunerStudioInstallDir]/lib/
dir.

[jrroy1984]

Thanks for the help. My user was not a part of the uucp group, so that has been remedied. I will test it out when I get home.

EDIT: 2:31EDT Had a chance to try it out. I now have connectivity. I added myself to the uucp group, but also installed the librxtx-java package. Found references to it elsewhere. Not sure which of these fixed the problem, or if it was a combination of both. Any clarification might be helpful for people in the future looking this up.

[chris_xtreme]

I know replying to an old post, but I had to use it to get TunerStudio working in Ubuntu 14.

I think 3 things are needed,

1) be part of the uucp group
2) be part of the dialout group as it owns /dev/ttyUSB0
3) install librxtx-java

tis working fine with a HL-340 usb-serial adapter on a MS1 extra.