i think you should ask the provider of you product,and i know a number of external TV recerivers can work without turn on your computer <div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/3 Marc Coevoet <<a href="mailto:marcc@dommel.be">marcc@dommel.be</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, I'm mailing from Belgium, I'm used to buy radio's from China, sorry that I can only share English with you. I'm curious whether opne of these usb dvbs receivers works under linux: <a href="http://shop.benl.ebay.be/i.html?LH_PrefLoc=2&_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A1229&rt=nc&_nkw=USB+Satellite+TV+Tuner&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=15&_sc=1" target="_blank">http://shop.benl.ebay.be/i.html?LH_PrefLoc=2&_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A1229&rt=nc&_nkw=USB+Satellite+TV+Tuner&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=15&_sc=1</a> <a href="http://linuxtv.org" target="_blank">http://linuxtv.org</a> lsist all "known" devices in the western world. I do own an older Technisat USB1.1 device. Marc -- ubuntu-zh mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-zh@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-zh@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zh" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-zh</a> </blockquote></div>