[arm-allstar] Dosbox

[Doug Crompton]

Chris,

 It must be FTDI if it worked on the Maxtrac. I have the Maxtrac cable and
it works fine here but as I said I have never programmed my Spectra using
dosbox. I do not have a cable. Unless someone has successfully programmed a
Spectra with dosbox on the Pi ???? I would necessarily blame the HW. To
determine the cable, plug it in and then do  dmesg  in Linux. It should
show the device name and connected port which should be ttyUSB0.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:07 AM "Chris Viningre via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> It was the same serial to USB cable that I use on all my maxtrc. I'll
> double check and see if it is FTDI.
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 11:18 PM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Chris,
> >
> >    I have no idea if anyone has ever successfully tested the Spectra
> dosbox
> > SW. I have a Spectra but had a friend with real Motorola HW program it. I
> > did not have the cable to do it and figured for one radio it would not be
> > worth my time to build or buy it. So before you pull your hair out see if
> > anyone else was successful programming the Spectra using the dosbox SW on
> > the Pi.
> >
> > Most all all Spectra cables out there use real serial ports DB9 or DB25.
> I
> > don't know whether it will work with a USB to serial cable but in any
> case
> > it must be FTDI.
> >
> >
> > *73 Doug*
> >
> > *WA3DSP*
> >
> > *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 7:24 PM "Chris Viningre via ARM-allstar" <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I hope someone might be able to help me with programming a Motorola
> > Spectra
> > > using dosbox within hamvoip. I use it often to programs my Maxtracs but
> > for
> > > some reason I cant get it to program a Spectra. The differences are
> that
> > I
> > > have to use a rib box because I cant find a rib-less cable for the
> > Spectra.
> > > The cable I use is one I built using the information at
> > >
> http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/spectra/spectra-prgm-cable.html
> > .
> > > I have tested and used the rib box on another radio that was a Windows
> > base
> > > program but without using a serial to usb adapter. My setup will
> connect
> > to
> > > the radio and go tn to programming mode, but kicks back an error. (
> > serial
> > > bus failure: protocol error) I'm lost on were to go from hear.
> > >
> > > Chris Viningre
> > > 70 W. Roadrunner
> > > Salt Flat, Texas 79847
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