Public bug reported: There are several "cheap and cheerful" DVB-T USB sticks available running the ec168 chipset. Currently a manual compile + firmware download is required. It would be awesome if we could package this code + firmware similarly to the slick way Karmic presents the broadcom fwcutter packages to the user: i.e. recognise the hardware and notify the users that proprietary firmware is required and offer to download it and activate it for the user.
User "talas" gives users the following (current) working way on Ubuntu 9.04: "First install Mercurial: sudo apt-get install mercurial Then get the source for the driver and the v4l and dvb-system with mercurial: hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/ec168/ When it completes downloading, go into the folder ~/ec168/ and run make. Hopefully the compiling goes well, then you will have a lot of modules in the ~/ec168/v4l/ subfolder. Then you have to download the firmware from http://palosaari.fi/linux /v4l-dvb/firmware/ec168/dvb-usb-ec168.fw ( This file can also be found on your driver CD, called EC168BDA.bin. This has to be renamed to dvb-usb-ec168.fw ) Put this file in /lib/firmware/ Then load the following modules from the ~/ec168-2/v4l/ folder: sudo insmod dvb-core.ko sudo insmod dvb-usb.ko sudo insmod ec100.ko sudo insmod mxl5005s.ko sudo insmod dvb-usb-ec168.ko Fire up VLC, open capture device, set it to dvb, select frequency of your local transponder, and enjoy the show. " Source: https://www.dealextreme.com/forums/Default.dx/sku.8325~threadid.278942 ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [needs-packaging] ec168 DVB-T chipset drivers + firmware https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458952 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
