# dmesg usb 1-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1f4d, idProduct=b803 usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-1.1: Product: RTL2838UHIDIR usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: Realtek usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 00000001 usb 1-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice dvb-usb: found a 'USB DVB-T Device' in warm state. dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. DVB: registering new adapter (USB DVB-T Device) DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T RTL2836 DTMB)... dvb-usb: USB DVB-T Device successfully initialized and connected. dvb-usb: found a 'USB DVB-T Device' in warm state. dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. DVB: registering new adapter (USB DVB-T Device) DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 DVB-T RTL2836 DTMB)... dvb-usb: USB DVB-T Device successfully initialized and connected. usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_rtl2832u
# lsusb Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1f4d:b803
# lsmod | grep dvb dvb_usb_rtl2832u 147072 0 dvb_usb 21388 1 dvb_usb_rtl2832u dvb_core 99732 1 dvb_usb
Note: However, this might actually be LifeView LV52T which has dual HD turner1)
# lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1f4d:b803 G-Tek Electronics Group Lifeview LV5TDLX DVB-T [RTL2832U] Bus 001 Device 002: ID 15a4:9016 Afatech Technologies, Inc. AF9015 DVB-T USB2.0 stick
We have these with standard 12dBi(?) DVB-T antenna, tower is no further than 30km away and they do work just fine. I practically don't know about these.
— Zdenek Styblik 2011/01/15 21:05