Yamaha YIT-W12TX not working

[Julian Sikorski]

Hi list,

Yamaha YIT-W12TX is a USB dongle which allows to transmit audio from PC 
to the YSP-4300 sound bar [1][2]. While it is quite old and no longer 
sold, I recently tried to make it work under linux. Unfortunately, it 
did not work:

[ 3676.366404] usb 2-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[ 3676.445995] usb 2-1.1: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 4 
but max is 3
[ 3676.446001] usb 2-1.1: config 1 has no interface number 2
[ 3676.446664] usb 2-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0499, 
idProduct=3108, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 3676.446666] usb 2-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=1, 
SerialNumber=0
[ 3676.446679] usb 2-1.1: Product: YIT-W12TX
[ 3676.446683] usb 2-1.1: Manufacturer: YAMAHA Corp.
[ 3676.449508] hid-generic 0003:0499:3108.0001: hiddev96,hidraw0: USB 
HID v0.01 Device [YAMAHA Corp. YIT-W12TX] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.1/input3
[ 3676.450846] input: YAMAHA Corp. YIT-W12TX as 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.1/2-1.1:1.4/0003:0499:3108.0002/input/input34
[ 3676.503844] hid-generic 0003:0499:3108.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID 
v1.00 Device [YAMAHA Corp. YIT-W12TX] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.1/input4
[ 3676.671641] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x1
[ 3676.675786] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.676476] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[ 3676.731911] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.735658] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.739399] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.743131] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.746920] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.750648] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.754445] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.758524] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.762274] usb 2-1.1: 5:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 
(id 5)
[ 3676.789671] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
[ 3676.790049] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
[ 3676.790414] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
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[ 3676.850031] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
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[ 3676.852677] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
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[ 3676.870674] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
[ 3676.871155] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
[ 3676.871908] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
[ 3676.872676] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1
[ 3676.900672] usb 2-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 3676.900688] usb 2-1.1: 1:1: cannot set freq 44100 to ep 0x1

This is with kernel-5.9.13-200.fc33.x86_64 and 
alsa-lib-1.2.4-5.fc33.x86_64 on Fedora 33. Under Windows 10 the dongle 
works without any special drivers from Yamaha, everything appears to be 
downloaded by Windows automatically, so I was hoping the device could be 
made to work under Linux relatively easily.

Best regards,
Julian

[1] 
https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/accessories/yit-w12/downloads.html#product-tabs
[2] 
https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/sound_bar/ysp-4300/downloads.html#product-tabs