[Ham-Mac] RUMTrol and the iBook G4

[Steve - VA3SPH]

Hi Dan,

Great news! It means driver, serial rate, cable, and radio are all  
working which is the bulk of the troubleshooting!

Not sure about this final problem as I am not a RUMTrol user but it  
sounds the you need to turn OFF or ON some combination of CTS (CLEAR  
TO SEND), DTR (DATA TERMINAL READY), and RTS (REQUEST TO SEND)  
emulated buy the USB converter chip in that cable.

Does the RUMTrol manual help with any suggestions?

Experiment with those preferences and I think you will find the  
correct combination. Basically it's flow control of data.
Clearly your able to send data so all you need to do is inform the USB  
chip you ready to receive data. In fact it sounds as if the radio is  
transmitting the data it just that the USB chip thinks your computer  
is not ready to receive. A changed setting your software should  
correct that.  Be sure to test sending again after you make a change  
as you might turn off something need to send data.

Again let us know how the pioneering goes!

73
Steve-VA3SPH

On 3-Sep-08, at 8:47 PM, Dan Romanchik KB6NU wrote:

> Well, this sort of worked.  I downloaded and installed this driver,  
> and a new selection did indeed appear.  I selected that and now I am  
> able to write memory info to the rig, but I still can't seem to read  
> anything from the rig. It looks like it's trying to do something.  
> When I click the "Read from TRX" button, both the red and green  
> lights start flashing, but once the operation is done, no data from  
> the rig appears.
>
> Any more thoughts?
>
> 73, Dan KB6NU