I found my old FM Radio stick last night and decided to see if it still worked.
On insertion of my USB Radio stick, I get the following message:
178145.786842] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: non-zero urb status (-71)
[178145.810838] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: non-zero urb status (-71)
[178145.813827] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 8
[178148.084395] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 10 using ehci-pci
[178148.194702] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=818a
[178148.194705] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[178148.194708] usb 1-1.2: Product: FM Radio
[178148.194710] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: SILICON LABORATORIES INC.
[178148.197655] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: DeviceID=0x1242 ChipID=0x0409
[178148.197660] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: This driver is known to work with firmware version 12,
[178148.197663] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: but the device has firmware version 9.
[178148.198151] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: software version 0, hardware version 6
[178148.198154] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: If you have some trouble using this driver,
[178148.198156] radio-si470x 1-1.2:1.2: please report to V4L ML at linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I read somewhere that running a newer version of the USBRadio.exe file should update the firmware. I can't seem to get the latest usbradio.zip from SiLabs to see if that will update the firmware. SiLabs makes you sign up for an account and I've not yet received a confirmation of my account yet.
When I try to use gnomeradio I get many of the following messages:
ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) overrun occurred
ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred
ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) overrun occurred
ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred
ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) overrun occurred
ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred
ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred
I can mitigate this by increasing the (I think) alsa buffers, but it never really goes away.
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James Klaas
