[maemo-users] N800 and USB host Mode

[From: George Farris]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 20:10 -0600, David Hagood wrote:
> bidon02 wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > I would be pleased to help for beta testing GMFSK on my N800 and my 
> > YAESU FT-890.
> > Are you not planning to use the onboard sound card rather then a 
> > external USB sound card ?
> > 73s
> I am planning on requiring an external USB sound device and an external
> USB serial device for rig keying and control. Using the internal sound
> has two problems:
> 1) on the 770 the only way to get sound in to the device would be to
> hold it near the radio's speaker.
> 2) There is no good way to do keying of the radio, unless you use some
> sort of sound activated keying (or your rig has VOX on SSB).
> 
> Also - don't hold your breath for me to have anything ready to test, as
> I am doing this in my exceedingly sparse spare time.

Good stuff David.  I have an Icom IC-706MKIIG to test with whenever you
have any luck with this.

-- 
George Farris
farrisg at shaw.ca