Twinhan 3030 DVB-T under Linux

I have a measly failed attempt to run a HTPC on Linux in my history. MythTV on top of Ubuntu is packaged nicely in the shape of Mythbuntu (unexpected and innovative naming 😉

Installing it was fine, and configuring it was also fine. There was only ONE small problem – the TV card didn’t work! Twinhan 3030 is a nice card. If can do 1080p and it has a port for a CA module.

There are drivers on the Twinhan, but they are for another distribution. The recommended option is to use the general Mantis ones. Modus operandi described below. Or should I say; below you find a tutorial on how to do it. It still doesn’t work of course, but it’s doing it as it should be done and if the download would have worked then it would be a proper way to get them to work. Now I can just recommend running another OS for this, or use another TV card. The advantage using the Twinhan card – the CA slot – is after all slim if you can use cardsharing or a dedicated reader for your own legit card…

cd /tmp
#make sure_ krenel sources are installed
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
#downloading driver
wget -c http://jusst.de/hg/mantis/archive/tip.tar.bz2

#unpacking driver
tar -xf tip.tar.bz2
#copying new dvb_net to correct directory
cd mantis-83e2af36efe7
#run installation
make
sudo make install