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