Hi Stephan, On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 at 14:26 +0100, Stephan Baum wrote: > Hello, > > I don't have experience with WLAN devices and FreeWRT, so maybe this > is a stupid question: > > Is it possible to connect a DVB-T device to an usb port of the WL-500G > router (running FreeWRT) to receive and save dvb streams to a harddisk > connected to the second usb port?
In theory this is possible. In praxis you would need to buy a supported DVB-T device and get a driver ported to MIPS. A supported device is for example a Terratec Cinergy XS, which I bought recently. Do not buy Hauppauge, their are many different devices, with the same name, but other chips inside. The newer chips are not supported and there exist no specification for it. The card is running under Kernel 2.6.19, but I am unsure if you can use it under 2.4. If you look into this, you see there are not so many drivers as provided by Linux Kernel 2.6.19. http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1.tar.bz2 So I am sure you would need Kernel 2.6 on Asus WL500gP, which is not supported right now. OpenWrt people are working on the reversed engineered driver for the Wireless LAN chip and they have a 2.6 port without usable Wireless AP mode. I am unsure if I like to support 2.6 on Asus hardware. I am familiar with the stuff, because I initially integrated 2.6 support for Netgear WGT634u into the OpenWrt distribution. Does anybody would use Linux 2.6 on a Asus router without wireless? > I'd like to use dvbd for this purpose: > http://dvbd.sourceforge.net/ > > What do you think... Is it possible to get this working? It is possible, but a lot of work. So a good advice, if you do not like to spent more than 3 weeks to get it working, just do not do it. (3 weeks is what I would need to get it to a point, where I would say, "Yeah, it is possible" or "Fuck, the shitty driver does not work on MIPS, because the firmware binary blob for the DVB-T part making trouble" good luck Waldemar -- don't open your wrt, free it http://www.freewrt.org _______________________________________________ freewrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-users
