[linux-dvb] Re: budget DVB-S the neverending problem....

["Robert Schlabbach" <robert_s@gmx.net>]

What card is this? The TT budget DVB-S ones I've seen (ALPS or Philips
tuner + STV0299B demodulator) did _not_ require _any_ firmware.

Regards,« 
-- 
Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
Berlin, Germany

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Reiche" <mark.reiche@gmx.de>
To: <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 7:56 PM
Subject: [linux-dvb] budget DVB-S the neverending problem....


> Hi Folks,
> 
> the problem I mean is and stays the same: The card only delivers data 
> after a Windows boot.
> 
> I talked to some Linux guys and they assumed, that the windows driver 
> could load some kind of firmware code into the card's RAM so that it is 
> preserved over a warm boot, but lost on power down.
> 
> So my question is: Has anyone of you an idea, how i could read (and 
> possibly write) the card's RAM to get the firmware there? Or is there a 
> way to extract it from the windows driver itself?
> 
> Regards,
> Mark