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 the hid_listen software, and got the codes for some of the keys so that I could map an ESC key and a LGUI key onto the keyboard. There's also an annoying tiny left shift key and a </> key where the full length of the left shift key should be, so I want to map the </> key to LSHIFT. Also, there's an extra key {/} on the home row next to the ENTER key that I keep hitting when I type, so I would like to map it to ENTER.
I can create an sc file that has these remaps on it, and using
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scas
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scinfo
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❯ ./scinfo
scinfo v1.10
scinfo: looking for Soarer's Converter: not found
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sctool info
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❯ ./src/sctool info
Soarer's Converter Tool v1.0
Unable to open device
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scwr
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sctool write
How do I get this software to open the Soarer's converter so that I can remap the keys?
I am a total newbie at this.
Thanks!
EDIT: SOLUTION: use sudo. Both scinfo and scwr require superuser access to the firmware in the converter.