[linux-dvb] Hauppage Nova-T firmware upload bug

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Oliver Endriss may or may not have written...

> Thomas Richter wrote:
>> recently, I faced problems using my Hauppage Nova-T (old model,
>> TechnoTrend design), especially getting the firmware uploaded correctly.
>> The driver continuously fails to load the firmware, even though the file
>> is in the right place. Interestingly, this behaivour is not reproducable:
>> The system works fine for a week, then the next day it fails, and even
>> rebooting doesn't bring it back to a working condition. The DVB-T card
>> then requires once loading the windows drivers; then, when rebooting to
>> Linux, things are fine again.

>> I played a lot with the sources now, using the 1.1.1 release of the
>> linuxtv-dvb sources.

> This driver is way too old and obsolete. Try current CVS with an 2.6.x
> kernel.

You may also want to try my budget-ci patches. (Note that these obsolete the
older version which uses /proc/budget_ci_ir.)

  <URL:http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-December/007112.html>
  <URL:http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-December/007111.html>

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