freebsd dvbusb

beni beni at brinckman.info
Tue Jul 15 18:46:24 UTC 2008


Hi,

I recently bought a Gigabyte U7000 usb 2.0 dvb-t dongle. 
According to linuxtv.org it should work under linux (I know it is not 
freebsd...) with the dib0700 firmware 
(http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices#DiB0700_USB2.0_DVB-T_devices). 
But under fbsd it doesn't...

I'm running :
bsdaddict# uname -a
FreeBSD bsdaddict 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #3: Thu May 29 20:47:26 UTC 
2008     root at bsdaddict:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BENI-DBSD  i386   

Following the instructions on http://raaf.atspace.org/dvbusb/ I downloaded, 
compiled and kldload'ed the sources .ko with no problem :
bsdaddict# kldstat | grep dvb
18    1 0xc7fe4000 7000     dvbusb.ko

But then checking dmesg :
ugen0: <GIGABYTE U7000, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3> on uhub4
This is all I get. No dvbusb0 is coming up.

When I try to download the firmware (I tried 2 of them, the dibusb and 
dib0700) I get (result is the same when doing it as root or as user member of 
the operator-group) :

bsdaddict# dd if=/boot/modules/dvb-usb-dibusb-6.0.0.8.fw of=/dev/ugen0 bs=1m
dd: /dev/ugen0: Operation not supported by device
0+1 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000126 secs (0 bytes/sec)
bsdaddict# 

bsdaddict# dd if=/boot/modules/dvb-usb-dib0700-03-pre1.fw of=/dev/ugen0 bs=1m
dd: /dev/ugen0: Operation not supported by device
0+1 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000184 secs (0 bytes/sec)
bsdaddict#

Any pointers on how to get this dvb-t stick working under freebsd 7.0 ?
Thanks a lot for any help !
-- 
Beni.


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