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freelancer85

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Registered: 2008-01-28

Posts: 7

Leadtek Winfast TV dongle works on Ubuntu but not on Arch Linux *

Icant get Leadtek Winfast DTV dongle gold work on arch linux. I work on ubuntu but i cant get work on arch linux. I am newbien on arch. Step to Step tutorial needed.

cyanode

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-25

Posts: 4

Re: Leadtek Winfast TV dongle works on Ubuntu but not on Arch Linux *

Hi,
it seems that the AF9015 (the core component of your dongle) is supported by the v4l-dvb driver.
According to http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/L … ongle_Gold
you will have to do

1) hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
2) cd v4l-dvb/
3) make
4) sudo make install
5) cd /lib/firmware/
6) sudo wget http://www.otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/af9015_firmware_cutter/firmware_files/4.95.0/dvb-usb-af9015.fw

you might need to

pacman -S mercurial

before, if you haven't installed mercurial and therefore don't have the hg-command in 1)

v4l-dvb is also in the AUR, but the comments suggest it's broken.

Your dongle should appear if you run

dmesg

in a terminal and plug in your dongle

.:B:.

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Re: Leadtek Winfast TV dongle works on Ubuntu but not on Arch Linux *

Hi, and welcome. Cyanode has been so nice to explain the basics, but a 'step by step tutorial' is not what an Arch user should be looking for. If you want to use Arch, learn to help yourself, to do research, and to solve problems yourself. We are not here waiting for you to stop by and ask for a tutorial to write.

Just stating 'it works on Ubuntu, but not on Arch' is a bad attitude. Show initiative, show commitment, and you'll appreciate this community - and vice versa.

Enjoy your stay.

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olaf42

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 7

Re: Leadtek Winfast TV dongle works on Ubuntu but not on Arch Linux *

I got Leadtek Winfast USB dongle and there is problem with loading firmware. There is ugly workaround i use:
I don`t remember exact filenames so you should:
1. Check # tail -f /var/log/messages when plugging USB dongle
2. /var/log/messages says something, that it can`t load firmware dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw
3. you probably have some version of this fimware, so find it (#find . -name dvd-usb-dib0700*) and rename it to whatever kernel wants (eg. dvb-usb-dib0700.1.11.fw or different version...)

Same problem appears for me on mandriva and gentoo. Ubuntu works fine.