openSUSE now includes drivers for most of the common cards and tuners on the market. It should just automatically pick your card up. In case it does not then you want to try install from YaST.

YaST TV card control panel

OOTB Driver = Out Of The Box Driver
For Reference you can find DVB cards supported under Linux Here

Freeview Reception

If you are having problems getting a digital picture please have a read  all about Digital Terrestrial Reception.

Common DVB TV cards

Cards in Bold are one's that I use. You will also need to install the fiimware for some cards in /lib/firmware. To see what firware you need, plug in your USB , and type "dmseg" in a terminal. This should show the card trying to load a specific firmware. You can get firmware Here

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This is one of the new generation USB stick type DVB receivers. Very nice for Media Centres because offers low power as well as not taking up a PCI slot in mATX motherboards. It is also available from other manufacturers including Yakumo Quickstick, Typhoon USB Drive, Wideview pentype(WT-220U),dnt Eurostick.

First of all there are currently three versions of this card as indicated above.
 
1. All versions should  work very nicely with SUSE 10.0 onwards

2. You have the second version with the new chipset if the revision number on the Windows driver CD is 602. To make this work you will need to install the custom drivers using the latest Linux TV Drivers.  See the section below on Building latest Drivers.

Note Linux Kernels from 2.6.16 (including SUSE 10.1) are very strict with USB 2.0 power. If your USB port or hub does not support the higher 500mA specs then you will have problems with USB TV cards. To overcome this use a powered USB Hub to be sure.

However you need to be aware that it is VERY SENSITIVE on its aerial input. So much so that if you are using any sort of distribution amplifier in your house then you will have a problem scanning and tuning with this card. For instance I only managed to get it to work off my aerial downlead which comes from a distribution amplifier by physically disconnecting the lead and holding it 0.5cm away from the sticks aerial input! How sensitive is that!
The solution was to put the downlead through a passive Y splitter which seemed to attenuate the signal enough for very good reception.

I currently have this working in conjunction with an internal KWorld PCI card so I can record and watch two differrent channels in MythTV at the same time.

If you have to manually load your drivers as per the "Testing drivers " tab, you will need to make sure that the drivers are loaded each time you start your computer.

To make this permanent we need to make a small entry into /etc/modprobe.conf.local
edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf.local, and a line.
here's the entry I used for the Kworld-dvb-t pci card
====================Here's mine=======================
alias char-major-81-0 cx88-dvb
====================================================
replace the cx88-dvb with whatever your driver name.

Building Latest TV Card Drivers

You find that the latest drivers for TV cards may not make it into the latest version of SUSE. In this case you may want to build the latest driver set from the Development release trees form LinuxTV.org. As of early 2006 all of the source code is now managed under a new release management system called Mercurial. You will need to install Mercurial from your DVD first before you can build the latest source code. There is a good guide on the Linux TV Wiki Here.