Talk:Afatech AF9015

PRO-NETS DM100A

Hello. I'll give this driver a go with my PRO-NETS DM100A PCIe card. When I use the manufacturer's driver in WindowsXP it detects it as an "AF9015 BDA" device, so I think it is worth a try. I'll post whether I am successful or not, but please tell me I you know that this has no chance of running so I stop trying.

Thanks for your time and work.

dvb-usb-af9015.fw

Hello again. After installing the module "dvb-usb-af9015" and restarting, it seems I need a firmware file:

$ thorin@Moria:~$ dmesg | grep dvb
[   54.656282] dvb-usb: found a 'Afatech 9015 DVB-T' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[   54.662094] dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (dvb-usb-af9015.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2)
[   54.662106] dvb-usb-af9015: probe of 2-5:1.0 failed with error -2
[  127.011760] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb-usb-af9015

I have encountered two problems with this:

1) I searched throughly for the file "dvb-usb-af9015.fw", to no avail. I tried the places suggested in this wiki, but those didn't work or had not the file I was looking for. Using a search engine, I found a possible location, but downloading that file (and only that file!) is not allowed.

2) I found this case, where it is said that you don't need the actual firmware file, but just any file with that name will do. I did not know if this workaround is applicable to my situation, but just in case I created an empty "dvb-usb-af9015.fw" file in every ".../firmware" directory I found. The output of "dmesg | grep dvb" is still the same. Could someone please tell me where does the driver search for the firmware file?

Best regards.

firmware location

is /lib/firmware/<kernel-version>/dvb-usb-af9015.fw a valid location on any distro. Well, none that I know of.