On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:05:04AM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:55 +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > Antti Palosaari wrote Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:48:01 -0800 > > > > > On 12/03/2009 10:09 PM, Peter Rasmussen wrote: > > > > > > as mentioned in the welcome email of this list, but it isn't > > > apparent to > > > me what the status in Linux of using a device based on this chip is? > > > > > > I have got today device having this chip (thanks to verkkokauppa.com for > > > sponsoring) and I am going to implement the driver. I am in hope I can > > > share some code from the old RTL2831U chip driver. I haven't looked > > > driver code yet nor taken any sniffs. I will do that during next week. > > > > OK, what is the status of this now? > > It seems from the status page that it is not finished. > > > > > Anyhow, there is Realtek released driver spreading over the net for that > > > chip, you can use it. > > > > I tried to find this but without luck. > > Do you know where it can be found? > > > > Anyway, I got the dongle to work via the following receipt: > > http://www.linuxin.dk/node/15583 (in Danish, but I think Google can > > translate it). > > > > I would appreciate that this be in the kernel tree proper > > I am doing a driver rewrite. > Don't know when I finish it though. Sounds good! Why is the driver mentioned in http://www.linuxin.dk/node/15583 no good? > Could you tell me what tuner you have, and does your card also support > DVB-C? It is called Zolid, and has usb id 1d19:1102 I tried it in a DVB-C environment, and it worked fine. > (some Realtek cards also support Chinese DTMB, but even if yours does, > you probably won't be able to test it (unless you live there). I live in Denmark. Occasionally I travel abroad, and I actually should have been in China 2 months ago. Next stop: USA. best regards keld -- 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
