[clug] Which USB dual DVB-T works with f11/mythtv?

[Hal Ashburner]

On 05/09/09 09:52, Andrew Janke wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 09:29, Eyal Lebedinsky<eyal at eyal.emu.id.au>  wrote:
>    
>> I need to add an external tuner and while I see many advertised online in
>> Australia (and is mailbox catalogue drops) it is difficult to say which
>> ones work out-of-the-box in this setup.
>>
>> My Fedora 11 is running kernel 2.6.29.6.
>>      
> I have a:
>
> Pinnacle nano USB DVB stick. (on the end of a 6m USB cable hanging in
> the window.)
>
>     http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=56&bid=2&sid=34947
>
> The specific bit to look for seems to be '73E'. This is what show up
> in dmesg when you plug it in. (it needs a firmware file).
>
> [327731.988672] dvb-usb: Pinnacle PCTV 73e successfully deinitialized
> and disconnected.
> [327732.212266] usb 2-3.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
> and address 11
> [327732.321680] usb 2-3.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [327732.322090] dvb-usb: found a 'Pinnacle PCTV 73e' in cold state,
> will try to load a firmware
> [327732.322098] usb 2-3.2: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw
> [327732.424384] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file
> 'dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw'
> [327732.642368] dib0700: firmware started successfully.
> [327733.144173] dvb-usb: found a 'Pinnacle PCTV 73e' in warm state.
> [327733.144272] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream
> to the software demuxer.
> [327733.144638] DVB: registering new adapter (Pinnacle PCTV 73e)
> [327733.427733] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (DiBcom 7000PC)...
> [327733.617984] DiB0070: successfully identified
> [327733.618640] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-3/2-3.2/input/input13
> [327733.645450] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 50 msecs.
> [327733.645458] dvb-usb: Pinnacle PCTV 73e successfully initialized
> and connected.
>
> Note that it has an internal IR device (and remote) that I have made
> work but don't use routinely (if at all). I have read various reports
> that this stick has some internal signal boosting thing that doesn't?
> work with the linux version but I haven't seemed to have such a
> problem. I can easily tune HD DVB streams using the piddly little
> stick antenna that came with it hanging up in the window.
>
>    
Asus U3000 Mini. (NB mini, no mini = no workee)
No IR remote.
Needs a fairly strong signal, I doubt it has an amplifier.
drivers have been around for a while, or specifically since asus wrote 
and released them so it would work in the original eee pc.