Dear all, I hope this is the right place to ask for help / clarification (linuxtv.org/ suggests it). I saw that Siano does indeed contribute to the media drivers in the kernel (so I hope somebody relevant is reading this). I have some questions about the Siano Rio chip that I could not answer by asking google... First of all, the chip seems to be supported by the kernel (modules load), but the firmware isdbt_rio.inp is not distributed by Ubuntu. I could find a package at http://repo.huayra.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/huayra/pool/non-free/f/firmware-siano-rio/ and this contains a file with this name. This is the only place I could find it on the interwebs. Anyway, below is the actual problem (assuming the firmware mentioned above is correct). I hope to get some hints on what I could try. I am not afraid of building kernels, but haven't done so in a while... Should I write a bug report? (where)? Thanks in advance, Jo Description: Changes to the siano driver between 3.11 and 3.13 removed TERRESTRIAL support for Siano Rio chipset from the driver. Report: On my Netbook (Ubuntu 14.04, kernel 3.13) inserting the USB stick results in -- dmesg output -- [] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci [] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=187f,idProduct=0600 [] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [] usb 1-1: Product: MDTV Receiver [] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: MDTV Receiver [] DVB: registering new adapter (Siano Rio Digital Receiver) [] usb 1-1: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Siano Mobile Digital MDTV Receiver)... -- end dmesg -- and the modules being loaded. -- lsmod output smsdvb 18071 0 dvb_core 101206 1 smsdvb smsusb 17531 0 smsmdtv 48244 2 smsdvb,smsusb rc_core 26724 1 smsmdtv -- end lsmod -- This looks promising. When trying to scan for station using w_scan however: -- w_scan output -- w_scan version 20130331 (compiled for DVB API 5.10) guessing country 'DE', use -c <country> to override using settings for GERMANY DVB aerial DVB-T Europe scan type TERRESTRIAL, channellist 4 output format vdr-2.0 output charset 'UTF-8', use -C <charset> to override Info: using DVB adapter auto detection. /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> "Siano Mobile Digital MDTV Receiver" doesnt support TERRESTRIAL -> SEARCH NEXT ONE. main:3228: FATAL: ***** NO USEABLE TERRESTRIAL CARD FOUND. ***** Please check wether dvb driver is loaded and verify that no dvb application (i.e. vdr) is running. -- end w_scan -- even though this is a DVB-T receiver stick. Trying it on another machine (where I cannot install the firmware) using Ubuntu 12.04.4, kernel 3.11 w_scan does indeed scan (but cannot find a signal because the firmware is not loaded), see below. REMARK: even when not loading a firmware the behaviour above (TERRESTRIAL not supported) persists. -- wscan output on other machine -- w_scan version 20111203 (compiled for DVB API 5.4) WARNING: could not guess your country. Falling back to 'DE' guessing country 'DE', use -c <country> to override using settings for GERMANY DVB aerial DVB-T Europe frontend_type DVB-T, channellist 4 output format vdr-1.6 WARNING: could not guess your codepage. Falling back to 'UTF-8' output charset 'UTF-8', use -C <charset> to override Info: using DVB adapter auto detection. /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> DVB-T "Siano Mobile Digital MDTV Receiver": good :-) Using DVB-T frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) -_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_ Using DVB API 5.a frontend 'Siano Mobile Digital MDTV Receiver' supports INVERSION_AUTO QAM_AUTO TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO HIERARCHY_AUTO FEC_AUTO FREQ (44.25MHz ... 867.25MHz) [...] -- end truncated wscan output -- -- 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
