Subject: Re: Open hardware wireless cards
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:59 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 17:37, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Wireless?!?  How abour a freaking pro audio interface (aka "sound
> > card")?  Wireless is like rocket science by comparison.
> 
> Audio is easy. Good audio is rocket science. You can roll yourself a USB
> audio interface with a microcontroller and a codec ic. Getting that to
> give you a really good signal/noise ratio is then rather trickier.
> 

Well, it would be IEEE-1394, not USB, this is where the market is
going/has already gone.  And AFAICT good S/N is just a matter of using
decent codecs.

Lee

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