PC TV dongle

[Shakatar]

I have a PCTV DVB-T dongle with a EC168 chipset. I understand it can be mabde to wark with linux. Im running Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 on an EEE 901. I have the linux driver and have been instructed to place it in the folder: /lib/firmware. This folder is locked down as its 'root' and I unable to place it there. The driver is currently in my home directory. Am I able to place the driver into the folder using terminal? If so how. I followed this useful thread on another forum last night but came stuck at this point . Im new to Linux but a enjoying the ride so far.These are the instructions I followed................

First install Mercurial:

sudo apt-get install mercurial

Then get the source for the driver and the v4l and dvb-system with mercurial:

When it completes downloading, go into the folder ~/ec168/ and run make.

Hopefully the compiling goes well, then you will have a lot of modules in the ~/ec168/v4l/ subfolder.

Then you have to download the firmware from (url removed)

Put this file in /lib/firmware/ I cant do this as I can write it to this folder as owner is root

Then load the following modules from the ~/ec168-2/v4l/ folder:

sudo insmod dvb-core.ko
sudo insmod dvb-usb.ko
sudo insmod ec100.ko
sudo insmod mxl5005s.ko
sudo insmod dvb-usb-ec168.ko

Fire up VLC, open capture device, set it to dvb, select frequency of your local transponder, and enjoy the show


Any advice would be appreciated

Cheers

Jim

[Jonathan183]

Put this file in /lib/firmware/ I cant do this as I can write it to this folder as owner is root

if you want to cp or mv files to that folder then try using sudo

I suggest you use

man cp mv sudo

and make sure you understand what you are doing with each command