[LAU] USB audio device recommendation?

[Ken Restivo]

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On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:35:27AM -0700, Mike Taht wrote:
> On 5/4/07, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
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> >My spiffy new ASUS laptop that I thought was so great, is saddled with the
> >dreaded Ricoh firewire chip (as well as having it on a shared interrupt
> >with, well, *everything*).
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> I note that pcmcia cardbus firewire cards generally cost less than 60 bucks.
> I have no idea which currently manufactured ones work well with linux, or if
> your pcmcia slot is also sharing irqs with everything....
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It's PCI Express, not PCMCIA.

I found these two and couldn't decide among them:
			 http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?227223
			 http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?294904

Both around $90 after shipping and tax, which is a non-trivial amount of money for me.  Especially since I have no guarantees whatsoever that they'll (a) work, or (b) end up on a non-crowded interrupt line.

I suppose I could try it and then RMA it back if it doesn't work.

- -ken
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