Hauppauge WinTV HVR900 not working

[thorper]

I recently bought a hauppauge WinTV HVR900 USB TV device. I bought this after checking it was compatible With Linux and according to the LinuxTV website this device is "supported in kernel since 2.6.26" although there is a link to a hauppauge support page which I don't understand.

Plugging in this device doesn't give promising information and both kaffeine and TVTime don't recognise the device. I have checked hardware details in PCC and checked lsusb and dmesg information which confirms to me that something is missing. I have installed dvb-apps  and libdvb, so I am wondering if something else needs to be installed. My laptop is an up to date KDE system with the following hardware:

2.3 GHz AMD V-Series Processor V140
3 GB DDR3 memory
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Graphics with up to 1405 MB total available graphics memory

Does anyone have this TV device or something similar and has got it to work?

hardware details from PCC:
Identification
Vendor: ‎Hauppauge
Description: ‎Hauppauge Device
Media class: ‎
Connection
Bus: ‎USB
Bus PCI #: ‎2
PCI device #: ‎5
Vendor ID: ‎0x2040
Device ID: ‎0xb138
Misc
Module: ‎unknown

lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:f261 Suyin Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 2040:b138 Hauppauge
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 192f:0416 Avago Technologies, Pte.
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

dmesg:
usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 4
usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2040, idProduct=b138
usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 2-1: Product: Hauppauge Device
usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Hauppauge
usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 4034165958

[AS]

The 2040:b138 is the new variant of the HVR-900, which is a DVB-T
device that uses a different demodulator (for which there is no driver currently).

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg30116.html

other info Hauppage related:
http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?cat=7

I have no idea if your card can be classified as R2

After sitting in a public KernelLabs tree for almost 13 months, I finally got around to merging the Micronas DRX-D driver upstream, so now DVB support for the PCTV 330e and HVR-900 R2 are in the upstream kernel (for 2.6.40).

http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?p=1478

AS

[thorper]

I now have a conflict of whether this device should actually work in Linux. According to linuxtv the Hauppauge WinTV HVT900 is supported and should work out of the box

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/hauppauge

Whereas this page suggests I have to do some work

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/linux.html

and a link given by as suggests no drivers are available

[AS]

I now have a conflict of whether this device should actually work in Linux. According to linuxtv the Hauppauge WinTV HVT900 is supported and should work out of the box

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/hauppauge

check your model, you should find the model printed on the device itself ...

Code:

Model 65xxx: 65008, 65018: WinTV-HVR-900 (EM2880) / 65009, 65019: Win-TV-HVR-930 (France)
             65201 WinTV-HVR-950 (USA)

Whereas this page suggests I have to do some work

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/linux.html

and a link given by as suggests no drivers are available

That page look ancient  as there are references to a very old kernel 2.2.5-15 RedHat 6.x, circa 1999/2000

The following path is valid for a fresh RedHat6 install:
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/

As I understand it is not supported from PCLinuxOS kernel 2.6.38.8 ... 

AS

[thorper]

The model on this device is probably printed inside the case and since this is a usb device it is difficult to get at. I found the device on the Hauppauge website and this gives the model number as model 00246: WinTV-HVR-900 with analogue & DVB-T support and English manual

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_hvr900.html