From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263044AbVAFUb3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:31:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263026AbVAFUaW (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:30:22 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:39386 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263033AbVAFUZk (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:25:40 -0500 Subject: Re: Open hardware wireless cards From: Lee Revell To: Alan Cox Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Norbert van Nobelen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , prism54-devel@prism54.org In-Reply-To: <1105034339.24896.228.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050105200526.GL5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu> <41DC4B43.7090109@imag.fr> <20050105202626.GN5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu> <200501060902.07502.norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl> <20050106172438.GT5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu> <1105033035.15352.0.camel@krustophenia.net> <1105034339.24896.228.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:25:38 -0500 Message-Id: <1105043138.15495.2.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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