<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have searched and tried all the troubleshooting steps I can find online.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">I’ve made many attempts to get the chirp software to clone my Baofeng UV-82L. This is the latest.</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">I’ve bought a second cable that seemed to be recommended by Miklor. </font></div><div class="">Installed the latest chirp onto Ubuntu xfce.</div><div class="">When I connect the cable into USB I see this via</div><div class="">dmesg</div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class="">usb 1-2: new full-speed USB deice number 6 using ohci-pci</font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class="">New USB device found, idVendor=la86, idProduct=7523</font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class="">New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0</font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class="">Product: USB2.0-Serial</font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class="">ch341 1-2:1.0: ch341-uart converter detected</font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class="">usb 1-2: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">That suggests to me that the computer recognizes the cable correctly and is assigned to USB0. Please correct me if I’ve made the wrong assesment.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">After booting the chirpw program I have connected the other plug into the two ports of the radio, turned on the radio, turned the sound up. Set to the upper band.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">Selecting USB0</font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">Baofeng</font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">UV-82L</font></div><div class="">Terminal reports Clone failed: Radio did not respond.</div><div class="">I have done every possible way to wrench that plug into the radio to see if it can possibly connect on each attempt to get it to initially clone.</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">Perhaps there’s something wrong with this three-year-old radio?</font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">There is no debug.log in my home .chirp directory, just config files.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class="">thx, sam</font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>