michaelp

For anyone interested, I have managed to get the Leadtek WinFast DTV2000DS PLUS working in Xubuntu 12.04 with 3.2 kernel using the github version of Ambrosa's driver. I didn't need the newer version from Gennar1. Details are on the linuxtv wiki. All I had to do was edit the header file to include the PID.

I have now realised I am being stupid and should be trying to use Gennar1's new driver, in the way he says should work for PCs. Sorry for all the dumb posts.

Now I have tried the driver without any luck. I am on xubuntu 12.04 with 3.2 kernel, so I set that option in the Makefile. Then I edited rtl2832.h to add the ID of my device, that is, I added the line

#define USB_PID_LEADTEK_WARM_4 0X6F12

after the other leadtek devices. I only guessed that this was the thing to do - I don't really know what I'm doing!

Then I compiled and installed the driver according to Ambrosa's instructions. This is what happens in dmesg after I insert the driver with modprobe:

[ 218.665051] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_rtl2832u
[ 218.676498] IR NEC protocol handler initialized
[ 218.677770] IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized
[ 218.682398] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
[ 218.689524] IR JVC protocol handler initialized
[ 218.690924] IR Sony protocol handler initialized
[ 218.692542] IR MCE Keyboard/mouse protocol handler initialized
[ 218.694192] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 249
[ 218.694942] IR LIRC bridge handler initialized

It doesn't seem to detect the card, and /dev/dvb/ doesn't exist. Next I tried adding the product ID to /sys/bus/usb/drivers/dvb_usb_rtl2832u/new_id as suggested in this page but that didn't work either.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Ok now I understand. You are right WTE that the card I am talking about is a PCI card and therefore is of no use in your enigma2 set top boxes. However, Ambrosa's driver is used more broadly in linux PCs, and so I came to this forum to ask for support on behalf of the people who are doing that. I'm sorry if it was off topic! Perhaps I should contact Ambrosa through some other channel.

In any case, I first need to see if I can make the driver work with the card.

This is not related for our enigma boxes as the box has no PCI slot.
Your link allready had a replay for a solution: http://ubuntuforums....666&postcount=7

Hi WTE. Thanks for your answer, but I'm afraid I don't quite follow the first bit. I know this thread (and the driver) is mainly about USB TV sticks, but these PCI cards actually use USB chipsets attached to a VIA PCI-to-USB bridge. So (assuming the PCI - USB bridge is supported in the kernel) they behave just like USB devices. At least they appear in lsusb, not lspci.

The 'solution' you refer to was posted by myself, but I haven't tried it yet I just hoped to ask the driver developers to include my device in the driver, though I should certainly see if I can get it working first. I'll report back.