[Motorola] RSS and serial data

[Bryan Fields]

On Sunday 23 February 2003 13:19, Eric Lemmon wrote:
> Bryan,
>
> It's not that simple.  For one thing, many radios use a single wire as a
> bi-directional data link.  There's some handshaking that takes place
> with most software, so simply sending data TO the radio will not
> suffice.  The RIB also applies a bias voltage to the data line, and some
> radios require the boot line to be controlled.  

I have a rib, and can program the radio with it.  I realize that some hand 
shaking needs to be done.  I am just looking for documentation on this 
protocol, so I dint have to redirect the I/O and reverse engineer it.

If I have to go to this length, it might take too much of my time.

> As for the booting to
> DOS, the RSS wants to control the comm port directly, and most Windows
> operating systems have a problem with that.

Well I can run the RSS in a DOS session that runs in user space.  The I/O is 
just redirected to the proper tty.

Thanks,
-- 
Bryan Fields, KB9MCI
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