[linux-dvb] Re: NOVA-T old model firmware loading problem

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 17:34, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> >>Nov 13 15:54:42 riker kernel: tda1004x: Detected Philips TDA10045H.
> >>Nov 13 15:54:42 riker kernel: tda1004x: Detected Philips TD1316 tuner.
> >>Nov 13 15:54:42 riker kernel: tda1004x: waiting for firmware upload...
> >>Nov 13 15:54:42 riker kernel: tda1004x: no firmware upload (timeout or
> >>file not found?)
> >>Nov 13 15:54:42 riker kernel: tda1004x: firmware upload failed
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >
> > You could add a line like
> >   /usr/bin/logger "firmware.agent: '$FIRMWARE' not found"
> > at an appropriate place in /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent to find out
> > what's going on.
> >
> > BTW, one of the recent rcX-bkY kernels hat a bug which caused
> > $FIRMWARE to be empty...
>
> Thanks Johannes, now firmware loading works for me. The firmware file
> has to be placed in /lib/firmware and not in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
> as the script get_dvb_firmware says.

Ta - updated the script.