On Sunday 06 July 2008 10:53, Anas Husseini wrote: > Hi again Nigel, > > Thank you for the tutorial. Actually I made a deep search in google before > and that's one of the tutorials I've found then. Most of these tutorials I > found contain essentially the same steps, so I applied them (compiling the > v4l-dvb-kernel, downloading the corresponding firmware, modeprobing the > modules, etc). However, there is one thing I failed to do, that is > obtaining the v4l-dvb-kernel through the mercurial command (hg clone) > because I always get a HTTP 503 error when I try to access that website ( > http://mcentral.de). Thus, I managed to download the a package called > v4l-dvb from linuxtv.org and compiled it successfully. I don't know if that > is an enough substitute to the mercurial command. Perhaps it is one cause > of this issue. > > I appreciate your kindness in proposing that you buy the tv-tuner and try > it yourself. I don't know wether it is available in France (actually its > price is about 30 to 40 USD), but I don't want you to take the trouble. I > am trying now other packages from linuxtv.org (those related to v4l or > em28xx) hoping that I may find a beam of light in them. I will try also the > tv-tuner on another PC that has USB 2.0 support. > > Thanks again for your continuous help. > > - Anas
Hi Again Anas. The card isn't going to work on your laptop with only USB1.1 available. The page below gives some info about USB standards. http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_via_USB When I was looking to see the price of these cards in France, the specs on one site simply mentioned that the card was a USB one, and none specific about the USB version required, but the MSI site for the DigiVOX A/D 11 specifically mentions that USB2 is required. According to another page I read, even if your laptop had a USB2 controller, the 2.6.18 kernel on Etch is not late enough (is missing some of the necessary drivers/modules), and it was suggested to install the latest kernel from the backports repo. I only say this because, if your other PC that has USB2.0 available, and you only have Etch installed with a 2.6.18 kernel, you will still have problems, unless you install a later kernel. I've found the page,as below. http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_install_DVB_device_drivers I think that you've already been on this page, as you mentioned problems with mercurial, and installing Linux TV drivers. All the best. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
