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[PATCH] dvb: usb: README update

Updated the readme file to point to the DVB USB wikipage to find out which
firmware necessary, + minor updates.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb
··· 48 48 http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB 49 49 50 50 0. History & News: 51 + 2005-06-30 - added support for WideView WT-220U (Thanks to Steve Chang) 51 52 2005-05-30 - added basic isochronous support to the dvb-usb-framework 52 53 added support for Conexant Hybrid reference design and Nebula DigiTV USB 53 54 2005-04-17 - all dibusb devices ported to make use of the dvb-usb-framework ··· 65 64 2005-01-31 - distorted streaming is gone for USB1.1 devices 66 65 2005-01-13 - moved the mirrored pid_filter_table back to dvb-dibusb 67 66 - first almost working version for HanfTek UMT-010 68 - - found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predessors of the HanfTek UMT-010 67 + - found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predecessors of the HanfTek UMT-010 69 68 2005-01-10 - refactoring completed, now everything is very delightful 70 69 - tuner quirks for some weird devices (Artec T1 AN2235 device has sometimes a 71 70 Panasonic Tuner assembled). Tunerprobing implemented. Thanks a lot to Gunnar Wittich. ··· 115 114 1. How to use? 116 115 1.1. Firmware 117 116 118 - Most of the USB drivers need to download a firmware to start working. 117 + Most of the USB drivers need to download a firmware to the device before start 118 + working. 119 119 120 - for USB1.1 (AN2135) you need: dvb-usb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw 121 - for USB2.0 HanfTek: dvb-usb-umt-010-02.fw 122 - for USB2.0 DiBcom: dvb-usb-dibusb-6.0.0.8.fw 123 - for USB2.0 AVerMedia AverTV DVB-T USB2: dvb-usb-avertv-a800-01.fw 124 - for USB2.0 TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBox II: dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw 120 + Have a look at the Wikipage for the DVB-USB-drivers to find out, which firmware 121 + you need for your device: 125 122 126 - The files can be found on http://www.linuxtv.org/download/firmware/ . 127 - 128 - We do not have the permission (yet) to publish the following firmware-files. 129 - You'll need to extract them from the windows drivers. 130 - 131 - You should be able to use "get_dvb_firmware dvb-usb" to get the firmware: 132 - 133 - for USB1.1 (AN2235) (a few Artec T1 devices): dvb-usb-dibusb-an2235-01.fw 134 - for USB2.0 Hauppauge: dvb-usb-nova-t-usb2-01.fw 135 - for USB2.0 ADSTech/Kworld USB2.0: dvb-usb-adstech-usb2-01.fw 136 - for USB2.0 Yakumo/Typhoon/Hama: dvb-usb-dtt200u-01.fw 123 + http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB 137 124 138 125 1.2. Compiling 139 126 ··· 214 225 215 226 Jennifer Chen, Jeff and Jack from Twinhan for kindly supporting by 216 227 writing the vp7045-driver. 228 + 229 + Steve Chang from WideView for providing information for new devices and 230 + firmware files. 217 231 218 232 Michael Paxton for submitting remote control keymaps. 219 233