Cables using the Prolific chipset have always been a problem.  I always buy a cable with the FTDI chipset.  I did recently program a radio with a Prolific chipset cable, so maybe those drivers have been added to the kernel now, too.  There have been fake Prolific chipsets out in the wild that are unreliable, so there's that problem, too.  As far as I know FTDI always works.


 
Thank you for reading this.

I bought a Baofeng UV-82HP about four months ago and I cannot get Chirp 
to read from the radio, or in fact to do anything with the radio.

I'm running Chirp under Kubuntu and have tried every Chip daily version 
over the past four months. This is the error message that I receive when 
I attempt to read from the radio:

"Radio did not respond"

These are the entered parameters:

/dev/ttyUSB0
Baofeng
UV-82HP

I have read and write access to the serial port which is the same port 
that I use for several application including programming an Arduino 
board. I have tried several different Baofeng models, just in case, with 
the same result.

I've trimmed the plastic from the plug so that it slips into the radio's 
sockets more easily. I've attempted to read from the radio in both 
channel and frequency modes. Finally, I've searched the Internet for 
even the slightest clue but to no avail.

I do not know anyone who owns a Baofeng radio or who uses Chirp. So this 
mailing list is my last hope.

Any clues at all will greatly appreciated.