[mythtv-users] Satellite TV and MythTV, getting started

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Ian Forde wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 13:54 -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:48 PM, John P Poet wrote:
>>
>>> I tried emailing those people over a week ago, asking for  
>>> verification
>>> that it is the PL2303 and not the X.  They have never gotten back in
>>> touch with me, which is not a good sign.  Maybe they don't speak
>>> english?
>>
>> I doubt they speak English. I haven't heard anything or gotten the
>> item, yet. If I don't get it before next week I'll have one of my
>> Chinese friends send them an email asking about it.
>
> I'd avoid that adapter.  It looks like one I bought last year only to
> discover that the hwid isn't supported by the Centos5 pl2303 kernel
> driver.  If you're running ubuntu, you may be okay...
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 is the studied
> history of my tale of woe... (sorry - currently reading a book about
> Shakespeare!)

I'm not plugging this into my linux box, I'm plugging it into the  
DirecTV STB.