Admitting defeat and going back to plan A worked a charm! The link you gave me for the driver was exactly right for the cable and radio I have and I just did my first download from radio without a problem. 

Now I just need to figure out all the fields and what frequencies I want to program. 

Thanks for your help!

- Lisa 


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Lisa Soto <eris235@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's on my other computer at home. I think it's 10.5 or 10.6 OS X.
>
> I just didn't want to mess with the drivers if it was going to be easier to
> do a LiveCD.
>
> I have a Baofeng UV-5RAX radio and the Baofeng USB cable.
>
> Will that work?

It was a wise decision to go with the LiveCD. Linux handles the low
quality USB cable drivers with much less fuss than OS X or Windows.
Unfortunately, it seems Linux doesn't support your keyboard driver!
You'd think it would just work as a generic HID like all other
keyboards...

Might as well admit defeat and go back to Plan A: install the
appropriate drivers on the native OS. I suspect the link under the
"counterfeit/generic" section is what you need for your cable:
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips

Tom KD7LXL
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