Hey Tom,

Just a FYI but I tried the last few versions of Chirp on my Centos6 machine with PySerial and I kept getting the following when trying to download a Kenwood TH-F6A radio:
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./chirpw
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/archive/Chirp/chirp-hg-e3b90fa8c316/chirp/ui/mainapp.py", line 1582, in mh
    self.do_download(*args)
File "/home/archive/Chirp/chirp-hg-e3b90fa8c316/chirp/ui/mainapp.py", line 681, in do_download
    timeout=0.25)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/serial/serialutil.py", line 240, in __init__
    self.open()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 272, in open
    self._reconfigure_port(force_update=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 345, in _reconfigure_port
    ispeed = ospeed = getattr(termios, 'B{}'.format(self._baudrate))
ValueError: zero length field name in format
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I then installed Python-Serial and things started to work. So.. it seems this backward compatibility has become broken.

--David
KI6ZHD

On 06/08/2016 12:49 PM, David Ranch via chirp_devel wrote:

Hello Tom,
Yes, I made an effort to keep it backwards-compatible. I tested
against the version in the kk7ds runtime for OS X, as I figured this
would be the most difficult thing to upgrade in the Chirp ecosystem.
Ok.. great! I'll give a test with my various radios to make sure they work with my TH-F6A (one of the drivers that it seems you've updated so far).

--David
KI6ZHD