Bit and / or Marcus: help setting up Ubuntu Linux for flashing with MySamBa

[John Galt]

Thank you Barry. That is indeed helpful and I will keep it in mind.

What is the purpose of symbolic links? Can you explain why they are necessary? Until I understand that I'll never remember how to configure them properly.

I have only a vague understanding of its purpose. Is it merely so that MySamBa can associate "com1" with a device, otherwise "com1" would have no meaning to Linux, and MySamBa cannot comprehend anything else?

Anyway, restarting Linux was all I needed to do. After that, I simply entered Minicom, used Ctrl A O to enter its configuration menu, selected Serial Port Setup, set the Serial Device to /dev/ttyUSB0, saved that setup as default, and that was it. The "Permission Denied" roadblock did not reappear.

After confirming the loopback test worked, I used MySamBa, typed com1 in the "connect to" field, and sent the file to the WP 34S. Everything worked.