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Follow up: on Linux, some commands, like scas, don't require sudo, and some, like scwr, do require sudo. Using sudo for everything, when in doubt, works. Only the superuser has access to the converter's firmware.

I have an IBM M122. I use the Dvorak Simplified Layout, so I wanted a Dvorak layer. Then I realized that my OS is configured in Dvorak, and that I had a bigger issue with other people trying to use my computer and not being able to because they only know QWERTY than I did making a computer that was ...

I'd borrow the win10 machine. On windows it's as simple as changing the extension of a .txt file to .sc and then dragging it over the .bat file while your soarer's is plugged in.


That totally worked! A few minutes with my daughter's Windows 10 laptop, and I got everything to work, and even ...

Thank you for your responses, @edlee.

I'm very new to this. I'm probably not likely to create my own hardware to solve this problem anytime soon. I literally started learning about this software yesterday.

I tried the v1.03 software, and it was just a bunch of hex files for the firmware. I am ...

Here's the Soarer's Converter that I purchased: https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Soarers-Co ... 2575692501

I tried this on two different Linux laptops, one running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and one running Linux Mint 20. I have access to a Mac running OSX 10.15.5 that I use for work. I might be able to borrow my kid's laptop that is running Windows 10 if need be.

EDIT: I solved this. Solution below.

I just bought an IBM M122 (Model number 1390572) off of eBay, my first Model M keyboard. I bought a 5-pin Soarer's Converter from orihalcon on eBay, and, good news, it works right out of the box.

Bad news, I downloaded the Soarer's software from geekhack and ...