On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:30 -0400, Rob wrote: > On Fri June 2 2006 12:24, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 07:20 +0000, c wrote: > > > there appear to be a number of USB ATA devices, with a rj-11 > > > plug for analog telephone network. i'm wondering if any of > > > these are compatible with the usb-audio ALSA driver? USB > > ATA is a disk drive technology, what does it have to do with > > audio? > > ATA also means "analog telephone adapter", in the telecom world. > > Many ATA's (like the Linksys one we use with Vonage) are little > embedded boxes, sometimes with a built-in router or other > hardware, but they also make them as PC peripherals. This is > what he is referring to. Usually they show up as sound cards, > though I assume they have extra ioctl's or whatever for dealing > with things like detecting off-hook status, etc. > > My only ATA experience with Linux was with PCI and ISA cards, > which did have drivers. Is there a standard, or does each vendor roll their own? Lee
