I had the misfortune of purchasing two of these PCIe TV tuners (as per lsusb): Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1f4d:a803 G-Tek Electronics Group Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1f4d:a803 G-Tek Electronics Group I’d assumed that the RTL2832U was a common chipset, and would detect on a stock kernel. How wrong I was. Not only… Continue reading Hacking the Realtek DVB RTL2832U into Linux by hand