Re: Open hardware wireless cards

From: Lee Revell
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 15:35:03 EST


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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