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    Lightbulb Freecom DVB-T v4 (RTL2831U)

    I had a real pain trying to find a concise solution to getting my Freecom v4 DVB-T USB dongle to work on my system:

    Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) - Desktop (on Asus Eee PC 901)
    uname -r: 2.6.28-18-generic
    lsusb: Bus 001 Device 013: ID 14aa:0160 AVerMedia (again) or C&E
    It appears I needed the device driver, and after hours of trawling through outdated chatty forums and web searching I found this:

    http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Realtek_RTL2831U

    NOTES:
    - use the latest mecurial repository mentioned, which is currently: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/rtl2831u/
    - The CLI command should be:

    hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/.../rtl2831u
    cd rtl2831u
    make
    sudo make install
    cd ..
    rm -rf rtl2831u
    Got it running straight off with Kaffiene sudo apt-get install kaffeine
    though it will also run with many others like MythTv, VLC, etc.

    I hope this helps !!

    Further reading:

    This device driver apparently supports the following device IDs:
    0bda:2831
    2304:022b
    13d3:3216
    13d3:3220
    13d3:3236
    13d3:3238
    13d3:3244
    08dd:2103
    185b:0100
    185b:0150
    1a46:1601
    14aa:0160
    14ff:0225
    Last edited by regstraton; May 2nd, 2010 at 12:28 PM.

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