Configuring IBM Model (Terminal M?) Soarer's converter

[Miska]

Hello,



Im working on 2 seperate IBM keyboards, but cannot get Soarer's converter to work. Windows detects it, it's flashed, but it wont type. I've tried 2 different Pro Micro boards and currently I've flashed it with Soarer's version 1.12.

Pictures:


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So if anyone has experience with this sort of stuff, feel free to help. Thanks!

[swampangel]

I'm working on converting a terminal Model M at the moment, although with Hasu's TMK converter instead of Soarer's.

Things to double check:

1. Is your pro micro 5V or 3.3V? (I messed up this time and bought a 3.3V pro micro. I had to recompile the firmware for 8MHz and attach the 5V wire from the keyboard to RAW instead of VCC)

2. Do you have clock and data on the right pins? (on a pro micro, pin 2 is PD1 and pin 3 is PD0, the opposite of a teensy)

You put a photo of the pro micro, but I can't see what the wires are going to.

If you made an external connector (original cable -> rj45 connector -> pro micro) you could try adding a 1k pullup resistor between 5V and CLOCK and another between 5V and DATA. If it's an internal connector (meant to replace the original cable) this shouldn't be an issue.

Might be useful stuff at this link if you haven't seen it already https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyb ... _into_usb/

[Miska]

1. Yes the board is 5V
2. Yes they are on the right pins
3. We added the pullup resistors this time, now we get the following errors: https://i.gyazo.com/a031bbd711860685f16 ... 5583e9.png

[kmnov2017]

From the picture it seems the red light is ON on the promicro. If everything was wired up and flashed correctly you should only see a continuous green light. Check if the cables are shorting each other ? Check if the solder is constrained to the correct pinouts...

[Miska]

From the picture it seems the red light is ON on the promicro. If everything was wired up and flashed correctly you should only see a continuous green light. Check if the cables are shorting each other ? Check if the solder is constrained to the correct pinouts...

Ive tried 2 different microboards, and both had red lights on them, ive tried multiple reflashes, so i dont think that is the problem. Solder seemed fine and nothing was shorting.

[swampangel]

I wish I knew enough about soarer's to be more help. I do see that your screenshots show Scan Code Set 1 when the docs say it should be Code Set 3: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=17458.0 -- suggests the board might have dip switches to adjust.

viewtopic.php?p=105282#p105282 also indicates that the keyboard id shouldn't be 0000, has some modified firmware from Soarer, and shows the difference between bad id (0000) and good (Keyboard ID: BFB0).

(and you're right about the leds - on all my converters the red light stays on)