Angus,

I have tried to get the USB to become active.

- I have updated to the latest CHIRP.

- I read near the bottom of the CHIRP installation page the instructions for activating the USB ports.

- I have the latest python.

Here is the output:

apt-cache policy python-serial
python-serial:
Installed: 3.0.1-1
Candidate: 3.0.1-1
Version table:
*** 3.0.1-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Thank you for your help.

David

From: Angus Ainslie <angus@akkea.ca>
Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2016 9:28 AM
To: David McGuire; chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] UV-82, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, can't connect...

On 2016-08-06 08:09, David McGuire wrote:
> python-serial:
>   Installed: 3.0.1-1
>   Candidate: 3.0.1-1
>   Version table:
> *** 3.0.1-1 500
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64
> Packages
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386
> Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>

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That looks correct as well but chirp had an issue with pySerial v3

http://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/3167

So it looks like you need to update chirp