TerraTec Cinergy Piranha

Support status

work-in-progress

Experimental driver is available at the repository (June 2008) [1].

Specifications

Manufacturer	Terratec
Product Name	Cinergy Pirhana
Model Number	TER-TT301231
Package Type	Retail
Warranty	1 year
Dimensions	50 x 20 x 10 mm (Antenna 115 mm)
Inputs	Co axial w adapter
Tuner Type	Terrestrial digital TV reception (DVB-T, Freeview, TNT)
System Requirements	Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon XP / Centrino certified notebook or CPU 2 GHz or higher 512 MB RAM 1 available USB interface Audio hardware with DirectX support CD/DVD drive for software installation Graphics board with DirectX drivers or video overlay support Terrestrial digital TV reception (DVB-T, Freeview, TNT) Microsoft Windows® XP with SP 2 / Vista
Package Contents	TerraTec Cinergy Piranha Piranha Antenna Antenna adapter Software: TerraTec Home Cinema, DVD authoring software with burning function Registration Code for tvtv (1 year Premium Account) Installation/software CD-ROM Quick Setup Guide Service card, Registration card
Features	Digital TV (DTT) with your notebook or PC Crystal-clear digital radio (DAB) Cell phone TV of the future (T-DMB), even at your computer Removable mini telescopic antenna Electronic program guide (EPG), teletext and timeshifting Digital hard drive video recorder Simple USB connection

Diary

J'ai fait l'acquisition d'un dongle USB TerraTec Cinergy Piranha après avoir trouvé son nom sur DVB-T_USB_Devices dans la section des matériels supportés. Mal m'en pris. Il n'est pas supporté out-of-the-box...

Linux bureau 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu May 31 23:51:05 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

à l'insertion du dongle dans un port usb, dmesg ne rapporte que ceci :(

usb 2-3.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
usb 2-3.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

et lsusb ne rapporte pas grand chose d'utile non plus

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 187f:0010

et la compil des pilotes donne une erreur

jch@bureau:/home/v4l-dvb$ make
make -C /home/v4l-dvb/v4l
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /home/v4l-dvb/v4l »
creating symbolic links...
Kernel build directory is /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/build
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/build SUBDIRS=/home/v4l-dvb/v4l  modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-5-amd64'
  CC [M]  /home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.o
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:491: error: unknown field 'dev_attrs' specified in initializer
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:491: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:492: error: unknown field 'dev_release' specified in initializer
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:492: warning: missing braces around initializer
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:492: warning: (near initialization for 'video_class.subsys')
/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.c:492: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[3]: *** [/home/v4l-dvb/v4l/videodev.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/v4l-dvb/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-5-amd64'
make[1]: *** [default] Erreur 2
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/v4l-dvb/v4l »
make: *** [all] Erreur 2

Hack pour le driver...

D'après http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/37175
"If you change both #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE lines from 13 to 19 you'll get it to compile (with a warning)..."

Une fois cela fait, le "make" tourne sans erreur de même que le "make install".

Reste à ce que le dongle apparaisse là ou il faut (/dev/dvb)... Ce qui n'est pas le cas spontanément :(

USB ID

Next step is to find the chipset used without voiding my warranty if possible. Also as I m not to good handling small things, if I try to open it, I will not be able to remount it properly... but if this is needed I will "donate" the stick to the cause...

A first round of googling doesn't give positive anwers (yet)...