[lug] Ethernet sound card

luke p linuxluke_20 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 5 23:47:16 MDT 2002


Do you still want it were all sound out goes over your 'device' or just that 
of your music or what-have-you? Also something you were saying that it'd 
only take a 3rd year EE student to do, well I can tell you this, if you wait 
3 years, I just might beable to do this for you. ;)
_Luke


>From: "Peter Hutnick" <peter-lists at hutnick.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>Subject: Re: [lug] Ethernet sound card
>Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:08:11 -0600 (MDT)
>
>
>Very, very close.  I want the Ethernet card to act as a PCI to Ethernet
>bridge (in the same way that a SCSI card acts as a PCI to SCSI bridge)
>that will allow me to connect an Ethernet peripheral to the system.
>
>On a Linux system this would mean nothing more than a device driver that
>looks like any other sound card driver to the rest of the system "on one
>end" and emits "decoded" audio data wrapped in Ethernet frames (via normal
>kernel access to the network subsystem) "out the other end."  (In the same
>way that audio data is wrapped up by the PCI kernel driver before shoots
>down the PCI bus to your sound card.)
>
>I think we are getting somewhere :-)
>
>-Peter
>
>
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