Most of the pcie cards (in fact, all of them in single speed mode) work absolutely fine on my laptop, given a sonnet echo express IIIe thunderbolt to pcie box. As said, my set up set me back more than 700 euros … I have a rme Dante-to-madi usb box here. Never checked usb audio class compliant mode. Will do. Best, ph Philippe Bekaert > Op 14 jun. 2022 om 19:23 heeft David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven: > > "Peter P." <peterparker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Philippe, >> >> * Philippe Bekaert <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2022-06-14 18:43]: >> [...] >>> I’m personally quite fund of their (current range of) pcie cards on Linux >> Thanks for mentioning these. Indeed excellent cards it seems. Forgot to >> mention that in my case (lots of live work) I need a laptop card. >> >> [...] >>> People looking into entering the world of ip audio, in particular >>> Dante or avb, will appreciate their convertor boxes, esp. to >>> madi. 0,7 msecs additional latency only. >> The last time I recherched, there was no usable (non-Motu) >> class-compliant Dante or AVB card for Linux laptops. Does anyone know if >> this has changed? > > It's sort of embarrassing but the Hammerfall DSP cards work with either > the Expresscard adapter or an Expresscard-to-Cardbus adapter (the latter > _has_ to map the PCI express lane of the Expresscard slot, not the USB > lane) with the old Cardbus adapter. It's ancient technology with 8 > line-in/line-out connectors and quite robust ADAT support, but in terms > of the quality and latency of the available connections and driver > support, it's still unprecedented. > > The Expresscard-to-Cardbus adapter solution is not overly convincing > mechanically. And you need to dig up the firmware for 64bit versions of > Linux (no idea where I got my .deb from when I needed to upgrade). > > And of course, Expresscard slots are a dying breed as well. > > -- > David Kastrup > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user