Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-08 Thread Thomas Sailer
Gerd wrote: > And is there a chance that their respective drivers will support that feature > :) ? Depends if someone's doing it 8-)) I've got alpha code, but I currently lack the time to polish it... Tom

Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-07 Thread Gerd
Hello Thomas, hello all, > > According to Thomas Sailer, there is a problem of those drivers not being > > capable of switching from playback to record/sample mode fast enough. > > This is no longer a problem, because (almost?) all new cards are full duplex > capable anyway 8-) And is there a c

Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-07 Thread Thomas Sailer
Gerd wrote: > According to Thomas Sailer, there is a problem of those drivers not being > capable of switching from playback to record/sample mode fast enough. This is no longer a problem, because (almost?) all new cards are full duplex capable anyway 8-) Thomas

RE: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-04 Thread Alessandro Motter Ren
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.) Hello Gerd Hello All >The second reason is that the SoundModem driver must be considered experimental, and >is sometimes not easy to set up. Even more, it seems that Thomas's support for that >driver has slightly vanished. He do

Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-02 Thread Sergej Pryadko
Hello Gerd Hello All >The second reason is that the SoundModem driver must be considered experimental, and >is sometimes not easy to set up. Even more, it seems that Thomas's support for that >driver has slightly vanished. He does not want to enhance tools like smdiag or >smmixer any more and e

Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-02 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Gerd wrote: > > standard sound drivers (either OSS or ALSA). > > According to Thomas Sailer, there is a problem of those drivers not being > capable of switching from playback to record/sample mode fast enough. > It may also be not very easy to get FSK RX/TX filters as well

Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-02 Thread Gerd
Hello Hamish, hello all, > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Gerd wrote: > > There are some good reasons to still use something like BayCom in our days. > > The first reason is: There are still frequencies that one cannot operate > > more than 1200 bps on, due to bandwidth limitations, fo

Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Gerd wrote: > There are some good reasons to still use something like BayCom in our days. > The first reason is: There are still frequencies that one cannot operate more than > 1200 bps on, due to bandwidth limitations, for example. soundmodem supports 1

Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-02-01 Thread Gerd
Hello Frank, hello all, > I do not understand the interest in special hardware type > modems like the Baycom. Although I have used the Baycom > (with the TI chip) and the Poor Man's Packet modem (using > the Am7910), I have found it much more convenient, and less > expensive (time and material)

Re: Hardware TNC (Baycom etc.)

2000-01-30 Thread Robin Gilks
Try running 3 or 4 soundcard ports on one machine for a node or something - then you will see the attraction... On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: > I do not understand the interest in special hardware type > modems like the Baycom. Although I have used the Baycom > (with the TI chip) and the Poo