[dvb-t]10.04: terratec cinergy t stick black

[jeroendew]

Ik heb gister de terratec stick gekocht bij de mycom. ik zag dat de t stick gesupport word met drivers maar toen ik thuiskwam kwam ik erachter dat de black een andere device id heeft en ik krijg deze dan ook niet aan de praat. met de howto van linuxtv. Is er iemand hier op het forum die ook deze stick gebruikt en deze werkend heeft onder ubuntu?

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lsusb geeft het volgende:
028:  ID 0ccd:00a9 Terratec Electronic GmbH

dmesg | grep -i usb geeft het volgende:

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[1910918.445060] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 28
[1910918.589182] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice


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ik zie dat deze in de verkeerde sub-categorie staat. kan een modje deze naar hardware & drivers verplaatsen? Alvast bedankt

[Tom]

AUB 

[jeroendew]

heeft niemand ervaring met deze stick?

Is het mogelijk om dmv ndiswrapper de windows drivers te gebruiken? ik meen dit vroeger een keer gedaan te hebben voor een broadcom wireless kaart.

[timosha]

heeft niemand ervaring met deze stick?

Is het mogelijk om dmv ndiswrapper de windows drivers te gebruiken? ik meen dit vroeger een keer gedaan te hebben voor een broadcom wireless kaart.

Het woord "NDISwrapper" zegt op zichzelf al genoeg, NDIS betekent "Network Driver Interface Specification".

Dus nee, met ndiswrapper gaat dat niet.

[w.d]

Kijk hier eens:

http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/probleme-beim-installieren-terratec-cinergy-t/3/#post-2361396

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1444535&page=2

Succes

[Cumulus007]

Dat is vrij waardeloos, als ik google op het device-id is dit forumtopic het enige resultaat...

[jeroendew]

Dat is vrij waardeloos, als ik google op het device-id is dit forumtopic het enige resultaat...

En daarom heb ik dit topic ook aangemaakt. Ik heb uiteraard eerst zelf zitten googlen en gezocht in verschillende fora. Ook terratec zelf gemaild maar daar kreeg ik een standaard mail van terug dat linux support door de community geleverd word en hun daar zelf niets mee te maken hebben. Dat ik vroeg naar de chipset hebben ze niet eens gelezen.
Ik baal er zo van dat sommige fabrikanten gewoon hun medewerking weigeren zodra het om opensource gaat. Zou het mogelijk zijn om mac drivers te poorten naar linux? Want die zaten er uiteraard wel bij 

[gilli]

The Google Translator should really do a better job translating from Dutch to German.
I was almost better off reading the native Dutch ;)

Hi jeroendew,

I just signed up here to give you some hope.
You were asking Terratec for the chipset of the Cinergy T Stick Black.
On the shell you can find the answer by typing

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lsusb -v
There you will find the iProduct of our strange DVB-T stick, which is "RTL2838UHIDIR".
If this post should be helpful for anyone, we can ask Terratec to update their page of listed chipsets: http://linux.terratec.de/tv_en.html

But however, knowing the chipset, I was able to look for it and guess what - there is linux support for it! On this page there's an explanation how to install the driver. Howwever, as the owners of a stick that is yet unknown to the project, we need to do a slight modification to the code.

1) Download the source code. It's basically a reduced kernel tree.

2) Unpack the rar file

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unrar x 091207_RTL2832U_LINUX_Ver1.4.2.rar

3) Unpack the bz2 file, contained in the unpacked rar file:

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cd linux_install_package_091207/
tar xvjf v4l_rtl2832_install.tar.bz2

4) Exchange the header and c files in "linux_install_package_091207/v4l-dvb-e0cd9a337600/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/" by the ones I attached to this post.
I just extended them by a definition for our vendor and product ID (0ccd:00a9) .

5) Change to this directory: "linux_install_package_091207/v4l-dvb-e0cd9a337600/" . Make sure you've got these packages installed:

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aptitude install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot build-essential zlib1g-dev

6) Do the following steps

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make distclean
make menuconfig
Just exit and save the new configuration in menuconfig.

7) Build the modules. If you have a multicore processor, add "-j <numberOfCPUs>" to the make command, like "make -j2" for a dual core processor. This increases compiling speed.

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make

8) Install the modules.

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make install

9) Load the module for our Stick

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modprobe dvb-usb-rtl2832u

10) Now check with "dmesg" if your stick got detected. This is what I get:

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dmesg
[    7.420003] dvb-usb: found a 'DVB-T USB Dongle' in warm state.
[    7.420010] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[    7.422288] DVB: registering new adapter (DVB-T USB Dongle)
[    7.422557] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T  RTL2836 DTMB)...
[    7.422587] dvb-usb: DVB-T USB Dongle successfully initialized and connected.
[    7.422597] dvb-usb: found a 'DVB-T USB Dongle' in warm state.
[    7.422604] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[    7.424694] DVB: registering new adapter (DVB-T USB Dongle)
[    7.424931] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T  RTL2836 DTMB)...
[    7.424957] dvb-usb: DVB-T USB Dongle successfully initialized and connected.

11) Now check with Me-TV (or any viewer application) if you can find any stations. I have to admit, I didn't find any yet but my antenna might be at a bad position. I'll try again tomorrow.
But the page where I got the driver from, also says: signal quality was - well, low. It's hard to say if it's hw/sw problem or insufficient antenna

I'll check here again to see if you got further.

Best

Gilzad

Edit: Typos, mistakes and a better explanation.
Edit2: More corrections.

[jeroendew]

Gilli i know this is a very late reply but i couldn't make time to test it earlier. IT WORKS!!! Thank you very much. i didn't got much reception but that can be explained that i tested it insite a well isolated house. I will test it later this week outsite to check if the reception will inprove.

Jeroen.

[gilli]

Hi and thanks for your report. I'm glad that did the trick for you.

I got another report from Germany.
After some research (even on a rather recent kernel 2.6.35.4) he can confirm that the patched driver does load and work with the stick but unfortunately far worse than it does with its Windows drivers. And the receiver doesn't even stand too distant from the broadcasting area.
Since the hardware does seem to work well under Windows, it's up to Realtek or any volunteer to provide a better Linux driver.

Best,

Gilzad