On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:13:45AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

Inserting a USB DVB-T stick (http://www.terratec.net/en/products/driver/produkte_treiber_en_33211.html into a USB port, gives the following in dmesg with current FACTORY, and similarly for openSUSE 11.1:

usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0ccd, idProduct=0055 usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 5-1: Product: Cinergy T USB XE usb 5-1: Manufacturer: AFA usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice dvb-usb: found a 'TerraTec Cinergy T USB XE' in cold state, will try to load a firmware usb 5-1: firmware: requesting af9005.fw dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (af9005.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2) dvb_usb_af9005: probe of 5-1:1.0 failed with error -2 usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9005

I didn't find linux/Documentation/dvb/ all that helpful, but Google is your friend and so I got the firmware and stashed it to /lib/firmware.

So, my personal problem is addressed (except that the tuner fails to get a signal "dvbsi: Cant tune DVB", but that may be due to bad signal).

However, my concern is that this is really not the experience we'd like to provide to openSUSE users.

How can be improve upon this?

Get TerraTec to release the firmware under a license that we can distribute it :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:19:35PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Greg KH wrote:

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However, my concern is that this is really not the experience we'd like to provide to openSUSE users.

How can be improve upon this? Get TerraTec to release the firmware under a license that we can distribute it :)

I'll be happy to invest a bit into this. Do you guys have any back- ground on whether this has been tried before and possibly an FAQ for vendors? (We've got something along these lines for GCC, and it's proven useful.)

I would suggest asking the v4l developers about this as to if they have asked the company about this in the past. Their address is: video4linux-list@redhat.com And no, I don't know of such a FAQ, sorry, it would be good to create, but as the kernel community is split as to the validity of shipping closed firmware images, it might be tough to get something together about it :( thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:46:23AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:

Le vendredi 13 mars 2009, Greg KH a écrit :

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I would suggest asking the v4l developers about this as to if they have asked the company about this in the past.

Their address is: video4linux-list@redhat.com

To the best of my knowledge this list is deprecated. The new mailing list for all media drivers (V4L and DVB) is: linux-media@vger.kernel.org

There is also a mail alias for all maintainers of such drivers: v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org

Someone better update the MAINTAINERS file in the kernel, I still see the following in Linus's tree: VIDEO FOR LINUX (V4L) P: Mauro Carvalho Chehab M: mchehab@infradead.org L: linux-media@vger.kernel.org L: video4linux-list@redhat.com W: http://linuxtv.org T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6.git S: Maintained which shows the second list as valid. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org