From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Flynn G7OCD Subject: Re: Responses to my Kenwood D7 question Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 18:14:05 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D569B5D.2020506@btinternet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Riley Williams Cc: M Taylor , John Ackermann N8UR , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Riley Williams wrote: > Does anybody have details of precicely what sort of functions are > implemented in the KISS mode that is implemented in the TH-D7 ??? > If so, perhaps somebody can write code for the Linux kernel that > works around whatever limitations it has. Basically, it's not 8bit clean. I can't see a workaround for this. This is the story: In the D7E (note E) mark 1 the TX didn't work. I complained a bit about this and after a while Kenwood UK told me there would be a mark 2 because alot of people wanted to use DAMA in Europe (and most DAMA slaves were PC based?) so they would 'fix' KISS. So I got on a trial with them.. After a few revisions they got to this: 1) TX in KISS mode fixed. Good. 2) Note arrives with beta handset from Kenwood JP something like this : " To 'make room' for this in the ROM, we had to remove Transparent Mode from non-KISS mode. Also while in KISS mode can't send binary" So I told them, that unless it was KISS as in they proper spec then there was no point in releasing it. They told me they already commited to a mask for new PROMS. So now I had a handy with a built in TNC that 1) STILL can't do KISS 2) Can't send binary when not in KISS mode... so I was stuck with 7+/YAPP/UUE etc :-( After that, I sold mine. J