KWorld ATSC 340U

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hey everyone…

I’m trying to find a driver for this TV tuner USB dongle KW ATSC 340U. I used Yast TV Card application and it didn’t have this one listed.

I’m not the best at using terminal within linux, just got OpenSuse a few months ago.

Is there perhaps another driver that Kworld has that is listed in Yast that could be used for this dongle?

Thanks!

Aaron

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Hi
You need to run the command from a terminal;


lsusb -v

And then past the output relevant to your device, if your not sure post it here SUSE Paste and post the link back

Also unplug the device, what a few seconds then plug it back in again and then run the following command from a terminal;


dmesg

Again the last 20 or so lines should be relevant to your device.

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Here’s dmesg
SUSE Paste

and lsusb -v
SUSE Paste

it does have a driver, but it still doesn’t work…

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Hi
Looks like the em28xx module still doesn’t support your card 0x1b80, 0xa340. Seems there is a fedora patch from http://jwilson.fedorapeople.org/misc/em28xx-add-kworld-340u-using-lgdt3305.patch

I can look at patching and building a module for you to try (As in a KMP rpm)?

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Hi
Looks like the em28xx module still doesn’t support your card 0x1b80, 0xa340. Seems there is a fedora patch from http://jwilson.fedorapeople.org/misc/em28xx-add-kworld-340u-using-lgdt3305.patch

I can look at patching and building a module for you to try (As in a KMP rpm)?

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How hard is it to put on a patch? I probably will need to brush up on some linux terminal language some more… Is fedora close enough to opensuse to substitute a patch?

Thanks for putting in the work

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Hi
No worries will look at soon, can you post the openSUSE version your using and kernel, run the following from a terminal and post the output from;


cat  /etc/SuSE-release
uname -a
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Also it looks like it will work with the next kernel 2.6.37 which is maybe an option to upgrade?

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Ok, I got OpenSuse 11.3 with kernel 2.6.34.7-0.7 desktop GNOME 2.30.0

How do I update the kernel if I want to do that? If that will fix the driver problem, maybe that’s the easiest solution…

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Hi
There are actually two kernel modules involved em28xx and lgdt3305, I have the em28xx one building now, just need to create the lgdt3305 one.

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Hi
OK, both are build on the build service, however you didn’t post the output from the two commands, so I don’t know;
a) If your running x68 or x8_64
b) default, pae, desktop etc

The modules are here, you need to select the ones for your kernel arch and version to install called lgdt3305-kmp and em28xx-kmp
Index of /repositories/home:/malcolmlewis:/KMP/openSUSE_11.3_Update_standard

Manually download, then install via a terminal (open in the folder you downloaded to);


sudo zypper in lgdt3305-kmp* em28xx-kmp*

Then plug in your device and check the dmesg output.

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sorry about that!

cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 11.3 (i586)
VERSION = 11.3

Linux linux-4s4s.site 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13:53 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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Hi
You need these two then :slight_smile:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/malcolmlewis:/KMP/openSUSE_11.3_Update_standard/i586/em28xx-kmp-desktop-0_k2.6.34.7_0.7-1.1.i586.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/malcolmlewis:/KMP/openSUSE_11.3_Update_standard/i586/lgdt3305-kmp-desktop-0_k2.6.34.7_0.7-1.1.i586.rpm

Then is would be (assuming your terminal is open in the same directory you downloaded to);


sudo zypper in em28xx-kmp-desktop-0_k2.6.34.7_0.7-1.1.i586.rpm lgdt3305-kmp-desktop-0_k2.6.34.7_0.7-1.1.i586.rpm
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Ok,

I installed it through terminal and it looked like it installed fine. I rebooted the computer and it went through a terminal like screen trying to initialize one of the patches, em28xx. How long should it take? I waited 5 min and it didn’t show any progress bar so I had to reboot without the device plugged in…

Oh, btw, I’m using TVtime, is that a good program?

Thanks

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Hi
So what happens when you plug the device in? Can you post the dmesg output please.

Can you also post the output from the command;


lsmod
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When I plug in the usb dongle, my computer automatically freezes. I shut it down, and with the usb device in, I start it up. I had to write this down as it was loading OpenSuse:

em28xx #0: v412 driver version 0.1.2
—[end trace “a bunch of numbers”]—
em28xx #0:V4L2 video device registered as video1
usbcore: registered new interface driver em28xx
em28xx driver loaded

Then it would freeze there forever. I waited about 10 min and nothing happened. I’m running the computer without the usb device. I wish I could give the dmesg and the lsmod but it would freeze the computer if I plug in the USB device.

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Hi
Ahh well we tried, you need to delete them then;


sudo zypper rm em28xx-kmp-desktop lgdt3305-kmp-desktop

Looks like you will need to try out installing the later kernel.

Search the forum for kernel+HEAD and review some of the posts on how to upgrade.

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can you give me a link to a good website or page on the forum? I searched and it gave me very random results…

Thanks for all the help!

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Hi
Post #2 should get you going
http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/452465-how-compile-boot-opensuse111-3-kernel-mainline-2-6-37-a.html

Now that being said, please make sure you have backed up any important
data before installing the kernel!!!

I would recommend either VLC or my preference is smplayer for you
viewer, both are available via the packman repository.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.27-0.2-default
up 3 days 14:31, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.07, 0.04
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 260.19.29

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Do I just need to back up data on the linux partition or should I put the whole hdd where linux is on to an external hdd? I have VLC, it’s great, has lots of formats that it can play…