[LAU] Express card 54 adaptor for a Linux laptop

[Lorenzo Sutton]

Nicola,

Nicola wrote:
> Ciao Lorenzo, thank you!
> ok give me the specs of your expresscard whenever you can...

The card is a Digitus DS-31201-1:
http://www.digitus.info/en/products/archiv/digitus-firewire-800-expresscard/

Careful! Take note of the -1 at the end (not shown on the website) 
because there's also a similar card of the same brand with same part 
number but -2 at the end. It has a VIA chipset, which some report to 
also work well but for which I also had bad reports from people I've 
talked to (who by the way are not on linux).

I'll send you in private the link to the shop in Rome which I got it 
from and still seems to have it.

Lorenzo.

> Nicola
>
> Il 15/07/2011 09:38, Lorenzo Sutton ha scritto:
>> Hi Nicola,
>>
>> Nicola wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> I'm considering the opportunity to improve my home linux studio based
>>> buying this laptop
>>> http://www.garlach44.eu/it/notebook-galway-15-pollici (from a small
>>> italian company) with Ubuntu pre-installed (No Microsoft licenses to
>>> pay!!).
>>> This machine has an express card 54 slot.
>>> I'd like to use a firewire sound card (echo audiofire 8) so i should
>>> buy a firewire express card 54 adaptor.
>>> Does anybody use it&  could tell me if it works properly ?
>> To get my FA 101 to work probably I eventually bought an expresscard
>> adaptor with a Texas Instruments (TI) chipset. The internal firewire
>> port of my hp notebook simply wouldn't  work. A cheapo expresscard would
>> work but I was getting any number of xruns and zombifications even with
>> all of the RT voodoo.
>>
>> It's not very easy to find out the chipset on these cards because it's
>> not usually advertised. I got mine in a store in Rome, if you like I can
>> give you the exact specs when I get back home (because the brand I got -
>> Digitus - has two models one with TI and one without).
>>
>> Lorenzo.
>>> Can you suggest me some models ?
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Nicola
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