Setting up an Icom IC-9100 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Linux Mint 17.1
Revised to accommodate Linux Mint 17.1 on May 7th, 2015. It should still be compatible with Ubuntu 14,04 LTS Create a couple of scripts. they are interdependent upon each other so you really cannot begin testing them until after you have created and saved both of them. The first script 'anchors' both of the ICOM IC9100 serial ports to always be named the same thing each and every single time (I so hated ttyusb0, ttyusb1, etc , etc. This always left me guessing if I was on the correct port.) The first script are the udev rules that creat a couple of simlinks to wherever both of the IC-9100's twin serial ports were added to /dev/ttyUSB(x). The purpose of this is to force the ports to always show up with the same name each and every single time your distro reboots or regardless how many times you turn your radio on and off. Now the two serial ports for the radio will always be found at /dev/ttyIC9100A and /dev/ttyIC9100B . Once the ports have been discovere