DVB-T dongles

[qwill]

I bought a DVB-t dongle, Terratec Cinergy with RTL2832U chip and E400O tuner chip. However I am getting nowhere trying to use it either for TV/FM or ham radio.  I am using a HP/Compaq small form factor Pentium 4 3Ghz.  I have tried a couple of other distros but no luck getting them to even work.  That is what I like about PCLinux it works -- usually. One problem I have is that the computer has only a CDrom so I cannot install any dvd based distro.

I cannot get GnuRadio to install for ham radio use. It uses cmake and over the years I have never managed to get anything that uses cmake to install on PCLinuxOS or other distros.

I cannot get MythTv to set up a database so the front end won't work.

I cannot get Kradio or VLC to find dongle.  VLC does find a usb webcam.

Something basic is missing.  It shows up in lsusb with correct identifiers but that is as far as it goes.  No driver seems to install so that it does not get installed as /dev/tv0 (/dev/radio0) or whatever it should be.

There are many posts, most fairly old, about getting MythTv and mostly PCI based tuner cards to work but none seem to cover the total lack of recognition that I have.

Any suggestion apart from 'dump the dongle' gratefully received.
 

[Just17]

unplug the dongle, wait a few seconds, then plug it in again and immediately do, in a terminal

dmesg

and copy & paste the last 20 or 30 lines or so ......  however many refer to the dongle.

That might give us something to work with.

You could also copy & paste the line about the dongle from

lsb

.......  and of course let us know what version of PCLOS you are using, is it fully up to date, and what kernel you are using ....

uname -a

-- again copy & paste.


EDIT:   have a read of this

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TerraTec_Cinergy_T_Stick_Black

Manufacturer's page

http://linux.terratec.de/tv_en.html

 
Cinergy T Stick Black                         Realtek RTL2832U
  (Rev.2)                                          Elonics E4000          0CCD   00D4       Not supported yet.

Is this the one you have?

[qwill]

PCLinuxOS is up to date, 32 bit. Version 2.6.38.8-pclos3


lsusb (I take it that is what you meant - lsb "gives command not found")

Bus 001 Device 029: ID 0ccd:00d7 TerraTec Electronic GmbH

Note the last 4 digits are OOD7  the online data refers to OOD4.  Looking at the online data also gives that it appears to be a Terratec Cinergy TStick black. I specifically choose it because on another radio related forum it was listed as working with GNUradio and the having best tuning range and characteristics  (RTL2832U  E4000 combo).  There is no mention on the box of Black but the packaging agrees with the online manual for the TStick Black version not the plain TStick.  My main plan is to use with GNUradio for aircraft/satellite radio tracking/reception rather than TV.  As I cannot get GNUradio to install I was trying to get it to work as designed as TV receiver.

Dmsg stops logging after the kernel is running. Never used to. There is nothing at all in the kernel logs. In "messages" this is the result of plugging in device.

Feb 24 19:18:01 HP3000 klogd: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 29
Feb 24 19:18:02 HP3000 klogd: usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0ccd, idProduct=00d7
Feb 24 19:18:02 HP3000 klogd: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Feb 24 19:18:02 HP3000 klogd: usb 1-1: Product: RTL2838UHIDIR
Feb 24 19:18:02 HP3000 klogd: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
Feb 24 19:18:02 HP3000 klogd: usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 00000001

If it is OOD7 is that fake or an update that doesn't yet get a mention on Terratec's web site.  It was sold as being Linux compatible. Any mention of Linux in online details would seem to mean it is compatible.


Sorry, it doesn't seem very helpful.

[Just17]

First .....  apologies for lsb/lsusb error 

0ccd:00d7

From the little I have read, it appears that support for this device was being pushed for kernel 3.7.

The available kernels in PCLOS are a bit behind presently .....  the latest I see in testing is a couple of 3.4  kernels.

So it appears you need a 3.7.x kernel for that device.

[qwill]

There might be  a problem with a 3.7 kernel.  When I tried 3.2 that was in repos I "lost" my wifi network interface.  It just wasn't there and I could not find any way to get it back so gave up.  That was 3.2.* from memory.

Might have to spend some time trying to get the Kubuntu 8.04 more up to date in the meantime.

Thanks

[Just17]

There might be  a problem with a 3.7 kernel.  When I tried 3.2 that was in repos I "lost" my wifi network interface.  It just wasn't there and I could not find any way to get it back so gave up.  That was 3.2.* from memory.

Might have to spend some time trying to get the Kubuntu 8.04 more up to date in the meantime.

Thanks

Just because you had a prob with 3.2 does not mean it will be repeated with 3.7 or greater