Re: Open hardware wireless cards

[Norbert van Nobelen <norbert-kernel@edusupport.nl>]

My personal opinion
Sound is mainly integrated on boards. Since developing a high end card is not 
an easy job, and the market is pretty small for that (enough competition), I 
think the wireless card is not too weird to do

Plus wireless is hot. What we can do is implement the standard and add a 
little extra once we are done with that, linux a nice encryption layer for 
linux to linux communication, thus giving linux (or a windowsbox with the 
right drivers), a nice edge.


On Thursday 06 January 2005 18:42, you wrote:
> [removed prism-54 devel as it's subscribers only]
>
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:38 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:37:15PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:24 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:02:07AM +0100, Norbert van Nobelen wrote:
> > > > > You don't have to buy a company. There are white label
> > > > > manufacturers which are happy to produce any card you like
> > > >
> > > > Excellent
> > >
> > > Wireless?!?  How abour a freaking pro audio interface (aka "sound
> > > card")?  Wireless is like rocket science by comparison.
> >
> > So be it, let's shoot for friendly open sound card design manufacturing.
>
> It's been discussed on LAD and LAU.  Not sure what current status is.  I
> think if the open video card is viable then this certainly is.  Pro
> sound gear is not a commodity market to the same extent that computer
> hardware is.
>
> Please check out those lists if you're interested, I don't want to start
> an OT thread here...
>
> Lee

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