Hi, success! I could recover my eeprom with Mauro's rewrite_eeprom.pl. @Torsten: I also had to modprobe i2c-dev manually. And I even modprobed i2c-smbus. Unfortunately the driver (kernel 2.6.34) still doesn't work. There's no /dev/dvb (even after loading em28xx_dvb manually as it has not been loaded automatically. Please have another look at the attached dmesg output. Thorsten [ 3481.670969] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [ 3481.829797] em28xx: New device TerraTec Electronic GmbH Cinergy T USB XS @ 480 Mbps (0ccd:0043, interface 0, class 0) [ 3481.829956] em28xx #0: chip ID is em2870 [ 3481.983457] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 00: 1a eb 67 95 cd 0c 43 00 c0 12 81 00 6a 24 8e 34 [ 3481.983483] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 06 57 02 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 3481.983504] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 20: 44 00 00 00 f0 10 01 00 00 00 00 00 5b 00 00 00 [ 3481.983525] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 30: 00 00 20 40 20 80 02 20 01 01 00 00 26 3c e3 49 [ 3481.983547] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 3481.983568] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 3481.983589] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 24 03 43 00 69 00 [ 3481.983611] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 70: 6e 00 65 00 72 00 67 00 79 00 20 00 54 00 20 00 [ 3481.983632] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 80: 55 00 53 00 42 00 20 00 58 00 53 00 00 00 34 03 [ 3481.983653] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 90: 54 00 65 00 72 00 72 00 61 00 54 00 65 00 63 00 [ 3481.983675] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom a0: 20 00 45 00 6c 00 65 00 63 00 74 00 72 00 6f 00 [ 3481.983696] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom b0: 6e 00 69 00 63 00 20 00 47 00 6d 00 62 00 48 00 [ 3481.983717] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 3481.983738] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 3481.983759] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 3481.983781] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 3481.983805] em28xx #0: EEPROM ID= 0x9567eb1a, EEPROM hash = 0x5a1fc1df [ 3481.983810] em28xx #0: EEPROM info: [ 3481.983814] em28xx #0: No audio on board. [ 3481.983817] em28xx #0: 500mA max power [ 3481.983823] em28xx #0: Table at 0x06, strings=0x246a, 0x348e, 0x0000 [ 3481.984942] em28xx #0: Identified as Terratec Cinergy T XS (card=43) [ 3481.984947] em28xx #0: [ 3481.984949] [ 3481.984953] em28xx #0: The support for this board weren't valid yet. [ 3481.984958] em28xx #0: Please send a report of having this working [ 3481.984962] em28xx #0: not to V4L mailing list (and/or to other addresses) [ 3481.984965] [ 3481.990805] Chip ID is not zero. It is not a TEA5767 [ 3481.990980] tuner 5-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (em28xx #0) [ 3481.991163] xc2028 5-0060: creating new instance [ 3481.991169] xc2028 5-0060: type set to XCeive xc2028/xc3028 tuner [ 3481.991182] usb 2-3: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw [ 3481.998357] xc2028 5-0060: Loading 80 firmware images from xc3028-v27.fw, type: xc2028 firmware, ver 2.7 [ 3482.052776] xc2028 5-0060: Loading firmware for type=BASE (1), id 0000000000000000. [ 3483.003956] xc2028 5-0060: Loading firmware for type=(0), id 000000000000b700. [ 3483.018947] SCODE (20000000), id 000000000000b700: [ 3483.018961] xc2028 5-0060: Loading SCODE for type=MONO SCODE HAS_IF_4320 (60008000), id 0000000000008000. [ 3483.054451] xc2028 5-0060: Returned an incorrect version. However, read is not reliable enough. Ignoring it. [ 3483.220169] em28xx #0: v4l2 driver version 0.1.2 [ 3483.225202] em28xx #0: V4L2 video device registered as video1 [ 3508.137491] Em28xx: Initialized (Em28xx dvb Extension) extension -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html