Hi All
I bought a cheap DVB-T stick that was supposed to be a RTL2832U with a
FC0012 tuner with RTL-SDR support. As might have been expected given the
price, it doesn't work. The various rtl_ tools all report "No supported
tuner found", eg rtl_eeprom gives:
> Found 1 device(s):
> 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM
>
> Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM
> No supported tuner found
> Enabled direct sampling mode, input 1
>
> Current configuration:
> __________________________________________
> Vendor ID: 0x0bda
> Product ID: 0x2838
> Manufacturer: Realtek
> Product: RTL2838UHIDIR
> Serial number: 00000001
> Serial number enabled: yes
> IR endpoint enabled: yes
> Remote wakeup enabled: no
> __________________________________________
The vendor did give me a full refund suspiciously quickly, so clearly the
lack of advertised RTL-SDR compatibility is well known to them!
I then took the cover off, and it does have a chip that's labelled
RTL2832U, plus another similar sized one I can't read the label of.
After a bit of searching, I found this old post with a patch to list all
the I2C devices:
https://www.mail-archive.com/osmocom-sdr@lists.osmocom.org/msg00454.html
That reports:
> I2C devices found:
> 20 a0 a2
So there is something working there, but I'm not sure if it's enough...
Is there any hope for this stick? And if so, what would my next steps be?
Thanks
Nick
Hello various Osmocom mailing lists,
the official Osmocom binary packages will not be built anymore for the
following distributions starting at 2024-02:
* Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit (use Debian_12 etc. instead)
* Ubuntu 23.04 (Ubuntu 23.10 and LTS 20.04/22.04 feeds are available)
* openSUSE 15.4 (openSUSE Tumbleweed feed is available)
* Debian Testing (Debian Unstable and 12-10 feeds are available)
For Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit users, make sure to adjust your
/etc/apt/sources.list.d as described here to switch to a Debian
aarch64 feed:
https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Latest_Builds
See the new linux distributions article for information on how long we
plan to keep building packages for each distribution:
https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Linux_distributio…
Let me know if you have questions.
Best regards,
Oliver
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