cuse4bsd / webcamd and Pinnacle PCTV USB Stick

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Thursday 25 March 2010 22:57:38 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Pinnacle PCTV USB Stick (DVB-T)[1]. Now that cuse4bsd is in
> ports, I thought I should test it.
> Details:
> tingo at kg-v2$ uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-v2.kg4.no 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Wed Jan  6
> 21:21:40 CET 2010     root at kg-v2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
> 
> root at kg-v2# pv  | egrep cuse\|webc
> cuse4bsd-kmod-0.1.8         =  up-to-date with port
> webcamd-0.1.8               =  up-to-date with port
> 
> tingo at kg-v2$ usbconfig -u 0 -a 3 dump_device_desc
> ugen0.3: <USB 2870 Device vendor 0xeb1a> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
>  (12Mbps) pwr=ON
> 
>   bLength = 0x0012
>   bDescriptorType = 0x0001
>   bcdUSB = 0x0200
>   bDeviceClass = 0x0000
>   bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
>   bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000
>   bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
>   idVendor = 0xeb1a
>   idProduct = 0x2870
>   bcdDevice = 0x0100
>   iManufacturer = 0x0000  <no string>
>   iProduct = 0x0001  <USB 2870 Device>
>   iSerialNumber = 0x0000  <no string>
>   bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
> 
> However:
> root at kg-v2# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/webcamd start ugen0.3
> Starting webcamd.
> Cannot find USB device
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/webcamd: WARNING: failed to start webcamd
> root at kg-v2# webcamd -d ugen0.3 -i 0
> Cannot find USB device
> root at kg-v2# webcamd -d ugen0.3 -i 0 -v 0
> Cannot find USB device
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> References:
> 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/pctv_usb_stick
> 

Hi,

Your device is part of the :

em28xx/em28xx-cards.c

driver which is currently not compiling. Some more work needs to be done. Are 
you willing to pay for it?

I can recommend: PCTV 74E

--HPS