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[PATCH] dvb: usb: README update
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Updated the readme file to point to the DVB USB wikipage to find out which
firmware necessary, + minor updates.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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pboettch authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 8, 2005
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http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB

0. History & News:
2005-06-30 - added support for WideView WT-220U (Thanks to Steve Chang)
2005-05-30 - added basic isochronous support to the dvb-usb-framework
added support for Conexant Hybrid reference design and Nebula DigiTV USB
2005-04-17 - all dibusb devices ported to make use of the dvb-usb-framework
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2005-01-31 - distorted streaming is gone for USB1.1 devices
2005-01-13 - moved the mirrored pid_filter_table back to dvb-dibusb
- first almost working version for HanfTek UMT-010
- found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predessors of the HanfTek UMT-010
- found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predecessors of the HanfTek UMT-010
2005-01-10 - refactoring completed, now everything is very delightful
- tuner quirks for some weird devices (Artec T1 AN2235 device has sometimes a
Panasonic Tuner assembled). Tunerprobing implemented. Thanks a lot to Gunnar Wittich.
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1. How to use?
1.1. Firmware

Most of the USB drivers need to download a firmware to start working.
Most of the USB drivers need to download a firmware to the device before start
working.

for USB1.1 (AN2135) you need: dvb-usb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw
for USB2.0 HanfTek: dvb-usb-umt-010-02.fw
for USB2.0 DiBcom: dvb-usb-dibusb-6.0.0.8.fw
for USB2.0 AVerMedia AverTV DVB-T USB2: dvb-usb-avertv-a800-01.fw
for USB2.0 TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBox II: dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw
Have a look at the Wikipage for the DVB-USB-drivers to find out, which firmware
you need for your device:

The files can be found on http://www.linuxtv.org/download/firmware/ .

We do not have the permission (yet) to publish the following firmware-files.
You'll need to extract them from the windows drivers.

You should be able to use "get_dvb_firmware dvb-usb" to get the firmware:

for USB1.1 (AN2235) (a few Artec T1 devices): dvb-usb-dibusb-an2235-01.fw
for USB2.0 Hauppauge: dvb-usb-nova-t-usb2-01.fw
for USB2.0 ADSTech/Kworld USB2.0: dvb-usb-adstech-usb2-01.fw
for USB2.0 Yakumo/Typhoon/Hama: dvb-usb-dtt200u-01.fw
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB

1.2. Compiling

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Jennifer Chen, Jeff and Jack from Twinhan for kindly supporting by
writing the vp7045-driver.

Steve Chang from WideView for providing information for new devices and
firmware files.

Michael Paxton for submitting remote control keymaps.

Some guys on the linux-dvb mailing list for encouraging me.
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