[mythtv-users] Hauppauge Nova-500 Diversity Card - Any Hope ?

[Frank Merrill]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Paul <paul at paulhurley.co.uk> wrote:
> I picked up a used Hauppauge Nova 500 card recently, thinking at the time
> 'haven't I read something about a model that doesn't work - naah, it'll be
> fine !'.  Well, obviously, after installing it in my PC, it doesn't work....
>
> It's the card with two antenna connectors and is marked 'WinTV-NOVA-TD-500
> DVB-T 68109'.  I don't get any messages in dmesg about DVB, Hauppauge or
> V4L.  The only thing that shows up in lspci is a 'Hauppauge Multimedia
> Adaptor 6800'.
>
> Am I doomed ?  Is there any chance of using this card in myth ?  (I assume
> that Hauppauge won't even think about exchanging a second hand card with no
> box, manuals or bits).
>
>

Can you say ouch?

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500#WinTV-NOVA-TD-500

Also check:  http://www.kernellabs.com

Frank