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PCMCIA Audio Support In NetBSD

Posted by timothy on from the listen-closely dept.

jmcneill writes: "NetBSD is now the first non-MS operating system to support PCMCIA audio adapters. A driver was added to the tree today to support the EigerLabs PCMCIA Audio Adapter. See the announcement for more details."

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  1. Unfortunately... by edhall · · Score: 5, Informative

    The EigerLabs PCMCIA Audio Adapter has been discontinued. Also, the claim that this is the first non-MS OS to support PCMCIA sound is incorrect; there is a Linux driver for the CAC Bullet II, which is a PCMCIA DSP/sound card (an impractically expensive one at about $700 unless you really need its DSP) -- although it may well be discontinued also. (I'm a BSD fan, but I believe in giving credit where it's due.)

    EigerLabs' decision to discontinue their sound card is unfortunate, but I'm sure that now that a PCMCIA sound driver exists, it will be extended to work with other cards. There's a need for such things; even though almost all laptops have onboard sound, and many do a passible job of sound output, most are far too (electrically) noisy for useful sound input other than speech -- if they support input at all.

    -Ed
    1. Re:Unfortunately... by jmcneill · · Score: 3, Informative

      The CAC Bullet II driver hasn't been updated for any kernel version over 2.0.x (according to Mobilix.org), and was never shipped with the official kernel.