So USB host mode for the N900 is looking as if it will be useful imminently, and the new Kenwood D-72 HT is due in early December (I've just preordered one).

I've put a feature request in for the power-kernel to support AX.25 networking and KISS mode, and have just built such a variant of the power-kernel v45, which I may not actually test just yet until the dust settles a bit and some reported issues are better explained.

I hope to build the ax25 libs and utils packages over the next few weeks for maemo5. There's still the old stuff I built for N8x0 (Diablo) floating around here somewhere, too.

If anyone else is planning on getting a D72, it would be interesting to hear if you plan to use it with your maemo device.