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I finally got my RadioShark2 device working with Ubuntu, here are the details.

There are two different RadioShark devices, the original one and the newer RadioShar2. Even though they both have the exact same USB device Id, they have different control sequences. So, you cannot use the control program written for the original model if you have the newer one, you need the code specific for RadioShark2.

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Every now and then when you boot up your Ubuntu machine (and this probably applies to most distros) fsck will be run to check your filesystem. Depending how fast you machine is and how large the filesystem is, this may take a while.

A script called AutoFsck allows this test to be done when you shutdown your system, this way you don't have to wait for it looking at a black screen.

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