[olug] Firewire PCI cards

[Ryan O'Rourke]

I'm buying one of those combo Firewire and USB 2.0 PCI cards this
weekend so I can start video conferencing with a webcam. I've found a
couple models to choose from that seem to work well with Linux, but I'm
wondering about speed issues. How much bandwidth does the PCI bus have?
I thought it was around 132 MB/sec. What good is something as fast as
IEEE 1394 or USB 2.0 if it's limited by the PCI card itself?

-- Ryan