Getting Hauppauge PVR 1600 to work in Ubuntu 9.1

[sume]

I'm pulling my hair out here, I've followed instructions here upto the point for the Startup Script for Analog Tuner the script provided does not run (v4l2-ctl seems to be depriciated?) In any case the scan for digital channels is not finding anything, I wasn't able to scan for analog channels. When I do something like
cat dev/video0 | mplayer All I see is static. I've followed the instructions and I didn't get any obvious error messages. I'm completely lost. I know the tuner works, I've tested in in Windows 7. I've tried connecting the coaxial cable directly to the tuner's TV outlet, to the ATSC outlet, I've tried connecting the set-top box out coax to the TV, and ATSC outlets to no avail. Any help would be appreciated!

[WinterRain]

I read somewhere that IVTV (PVR series) will get it going. See my sig (blog) and you will see a link to my tutorial. Good luck.