On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Paolo Pettinato <p.pettinato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm new to this mailing list so please excuse me if I do some mistakes > :) also I feel sorry for my English :) > I've recently bought a cheap DVB-T dongle on ebay. Works like a charm > on windows XP, but it seems that there's no support on linux (I've > done some searching). > The vendorid:productid codes are 8086:9500. On "Device Manager" it is > listed as "CE6230 Standalone Driver (BDA)". On its properties, it says > that it's manufactured by Realfine Ltd and is on Location 0 > (CE9500B1). > Since I can't stand the fact that I can't use some hardware on linux, > I'm asking two questions: > 1. Has any work be done to support this device (or similar ones, like > - I think - the "AVerMedia USB2.0 DVB-T A310")? > 2. If so, how can I help further developing? > > I'm a student in computer engineering, so I won't mind spending some > time on driver developing (though I have never done till now). > Paolo Hi, I'm not aware of any drivers for the CE6230 (in fact, this is the first device I've heard of that uses it so far). Someone will have to try and get the docs from Intel - I don't think these are exactly simple devices. (They have a full programmable 8051 microprocessor core on-chip in addition to stuff like a seperate hardware PID filter and a fairly intelligent demodulator. OTOH, the demodulator is probably based on one of the Zarlink designs, which makes life slightly easier). > CE6230 is a demodulator of Intel > (http://www.intel.com/design/celect/demodulators/ce6230.htm) . Its seems to > be a successor of the Zarlink MT352/MT353 (Intel bought Zarlink some time > ago). > > So you should have a look on the 352/353 drivers, maybe there are some > parallels. Yep - it's an integrated USB interface and demodulator on a chip. They seem to be becoming more common these days, possibly due to potential cost savings. Probably has more in common with the ZL10353/CE6353 and company - the MT352/MT353 had been throughly obsoleted by them by the time Intel bought out Zarlink, to the point that Intel didn't even bother giving them new Intel part numbers. Aidan _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
