Re: Fwd: 0bda:2838 Ezcap DVB USB adaptor - no device files created / RTL2831U/RTL2832U

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Joel Stanley wrote, on 03/07/11 12:17:
> Hello Jan,
>
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 05:53, Jan Hoogenraad
> <jan-conceptronic@hoogenraad.net>  wrote:
>> I have decided AGAINST making it runnable on newer kernels, as there are
>> some people working right now on a new release.
>
> I appreciate that you would prefer efforts to go towards a upstream
> driver. In the mean time I've updated the git tree[1] on my website.
> There were no real changes required; just a re-build with an updated
> dvb-usb.h and dvb_frontend.h from the kernel tree. Checkout the
> linux-3 branch.

Thanks, I rebuilt this against the linux-3 branch and now see the device 
tree:

# ls -alR /dev/dvb
/dev/dvb:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   80 Jul  3 13:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 3140 Jul  3 13:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 Jul  3 13:33 adapter0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 Jul  3 13:33 adapter1

/dev/dvb/adapter0:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     120 Jul  3 13:33 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      80 Jul  3 13:33 ..
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 0 Jul  3 13:33 demux0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 1 Jul  3 13:33 dvr0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 Jul  3 13:33 frontend0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 2 Jul  3 13:33 net0

/dev/dvb/adapter1:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     120 Jul  3 13:33 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      80 Jul  3 13:33 ..
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 4 Jul  3 13:33 demux0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 5 Jul  3 13:33 dvr0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 7 Jul  3 13:33 frontend0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 6 Jul  3 13:33 net0

but haven't had time to test it further yet.
I'd be interested to hear more about the new release.

Arthur.