Re: Sound for a mute Thinkpad?

[Glen Mehn <glen@burningman.com>]

Nate Bargmann wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I have as my road warrior a (getting older by the minute) Thinkpad
> 760ED.  Great solid machine, beautiful display, except it has the
> infamous MWave DSP sound hardware.  Some work was done by some IBM
> engineers to support the modem function of MWave in a few newer model
> TPs, but never the sound side.
>
> A thought crossed my mind recently that a PCMCIA sound card might do the
> trick.  Alas, few PCMCIA sound cards seem to have been made and their
> support in pcmcia-cs is non-existant.  So I guess I'm left to find
> a newer laptop for sound support unless someone has an idea.  I haven't
> tried the PC Speaker support yet as it likely doesn't have good fidelity
> or support a microphone input (I'd like to use sound support in
> conjunction with ham radio projects).  There was also mention I found of
> a parallel port sound device, but I suspect it suffers from the same
> limitation of the PC Speaker.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> - Nate >>
>
>  
good luck. I tihnk youre just about out of it :>

One thing you could do, if you can find a 16-bit pcmcia usb card is get 
one of usb sound cards. I don't know the details of getting that to 
work, though, but it's a thought...

-g