[ubuntu-uk] Problems with WinTV Nova-t 500

[Alan Pope]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:57:04PM +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 10/01/2008, LeeGroups <mailgroups at varga.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi, we have a MythTV home setup, and today our tuner suddenly stopped
> > > working. I ran a test and these results were presented to me...
> > >
> > >
> > > root at ubuntu-server:~# dmesg | grep dvb
> > > [   18.248000] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in
> > > cold state, will try to load a firmware
> > > [   19.576000] dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file.
> > > (dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more
> > > details on firmware-problems. (-2)
> > > [   19.576000] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700
> > >
> > > It appeares that something has recently affected the firmware on the
> > > device, and It can no longer install the usual way, any ideas anyone?
> > >
> > It's not that it's been affected, more that it can't find it...
> >
> > A lot of these DVB cards have there firmware loaded into them at boot
> > time by their corresponding driver software.
> > I think it's just complaining that it can find the
> > "dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw" file that it's expecting to find in some
> > specific location in the harddrive...
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
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> > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
> >
> 
> Its still there, its not as if it can just uninstall itself, right?
> 

Well my system doesn't have that file in /lib/firmware/... so either it was 
there and was removed in a kernel update or you never had it :)

Googling for the filename shows this guy has a copy on his webspace:-

http://www.omskakas.se/2007/01/howto-hauppauge-nova-t-500-pci-under-linux.html

Cheers,
Al.