DUTV005 USB DVB-T dongle

Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab at infradead.org
Tue Mar 3 16:10:12 PST 2009


Hi Jan,

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:21:32 -0800
Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:17:26AM +0100, Jan Grmela wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've bought some cheap DVB-T USB dongle at eBay last month but after
> > some unsuccessful tries to get it working, I've figured out that
> > there's no Linux driver for the device available since the chipset is
> > quite new. There are a lot of other people complaining that they need
> > to use Windows to watch TV.
> > 
> > Moosy's got a lot of info, USB dumps and datasheets at
> > http://sites.google.com/site/moosyresearch/dutv005
> > 
> > I'm ready to lend the device to a developer willing to create a Linux
> > driver for it because it's basically useless for me now.
> 
> Reverse engineering devices is a pain.  I'll not object if anyone wants
> to do this, but I'm sure not going to work on it, sorry.
> 
> You might want to post this to the developer list instead.

The better is to copy also the linux-media at vger.kernel.org for DVB
developments. do you know what chips are inside? Maybe there are someone
already working on it.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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Cheers,
Mauro


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