I think freedos has support for usb devices. It's an open source clone of dos. It works for programming some radios in my experience but I never tried the usb support for a usb-serial adapter.
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:26 PM, La Rue Communications <laruec...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Finally - another Mac fan surfaces! :-) > > I have tried using DOSBox on our WinXP, however have had ZERO luck on the > serial port recognition. Fromw hat I heard, the emulator will not recognize > serial ports. Is that why you have resorted to the USB dongle? I cant > remember if DOS ever recognized USB accessories. THats news to me! > > THanks for the tip! > > John Hymes > La Rue Communications > 10 S. Aurora Street > Stockton, CA 95202 > http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Tim - WD6AWP <tisaw...@gmail.com> > *To:* Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > *Sent:* Monday, August 09, 2010 7:02 AM > *Subject:* [Repeater-Builder] DOSBox to Program Radios > > > > DOSBox (www.dosbox.com) is an x86 emulator with DOS. It works great for > programming those radios that need old, slow PCs for the software. I use it > on my MacBook dual booting into Windows 7 and using an IO Gear USB serial > dongle on COM1. So far I've programmed a couple of Radius M1225's and a > VXR-5000. A friend of mine has similar results with Windows XP on a 800Mhz > PC with a real serial port. > > -- > Tim > > >
