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Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 08:55:54 +0200
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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Hi,

On 05/19/2013 10:18 PM, Ted To wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I purchased this device and while the device driver loads and I can set
> up gnomeradio to access it, it picks up no radio stations, despite being
> the model with an external antenna.  The log output says "software
> version 0, hardware version 7".  I'm running Debian Wheezy and the
> output from dmesg is:
>
> [66842.724036] usb 2-3: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci_hcd
> [66842.936144] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=06e1, idProduct=a155
> [66842.936150] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=0
> [66842.936154] usb 2-3: Product: ADS InstantFM Music
> [66842.936156] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: ADS TECH
> [66843.275730] Linux media interface: v0.10
> [66843.296811] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> [66843.321815] USB radio driver for Si470x FM Radio Receivers, Version
> 1.0.10
> [66843.323136] radio-si470x 2-3:1.2: DeviceID=0xffff ChipID=0xffff
> [66843.326127] radio-si470x 2-3:1.2: software version 0, hardware version 7
> [66843.326131] radio-si470x 2-3:1.2: This driver is known to work with
> software version 7,
> [66843.326135] radio-si470x 2-3:1.2: but the device has software version 0.
> [66843.326138] radio-si470x 2-3:1.2: If you have some trouble using this
> driver,
> [66843.326141] radio-si470x 2-3:1.2: please report to V4L ML at
> linux-media@vger.kernel.org
> [66843.338247] usbcore: registered new interface driver radio-si470x
> [66843.407477] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
>
> Any help on what I need to do to get this working would be much appreciated.

Can you try with the (console-based) radio app from the latest xawtv release,
xawtv-3.103 ?

gnomeradio is not being actively maintained, so it could be your just hitting
a gnomeradio issue.

Regards,

Hans