Hi I don't think you will have any joy with this project. First of all, PCMCIA soundcards are not supported by the pcmcia-source package (according to SUPPORTED.CARDS), second, your CPU is too slow to play MP3's in software, at least at sensible bitrates -- unless you use DOS, in which case the situation may be different, but I don't know.
You might find it interesting that the German magazine c't ran a couple of articles about building a hardware MP3 decoder that receives its data via parallel port, for which you need no more than a 286 and no soundcard. The issue numbers are 9 and 10/1999. Good luck Rolf On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:27:09PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > I?ll be getting an old 486/40-notebook in the near future which I?d > like to recycle as an mp3-player for my stereo. > > Now, obviously, since the box doesn?t have sound built-in, I?ll need a > pcmcia-soundcard. Does anyone round here > - know of one > - is running it successfully w/ debian? -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith Hospital, London
