[mythtv-users] PCTV 292e not being detected by mythtv-setup

[Andre Newman]

Try following this:

https://plus.google.com/+AnttiPalosaari/posts/HYby5GUgXMC

Or just:

https://github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware/blob/master/firmware/dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw

Unless “something” happened to the the driver between 3.16 and 3.19…

Andre


On 19 Mar 2015, at 16:03, Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> ---- On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:30:19 +0000 Andre Newman<mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote ---- 
>> 
>> On 19 Mar 2015, at 13:03, Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote: 
>> 
>>> I've just bought a 292e tuner, and am struggling to get it detected by mythtv. 
>>> 
>>> I'm on fedora server 21 (3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64), em28xx shows in 'lsmod', and when i plug the device in, dmesg shows the correct 292e info. 
>>> What i have noticed is that when the 292e shows in dmesg, then no /dev/dvb/adapter is assigned to it - i presume this is why i cant get it working. 
>>> 
>>> Looking at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCTV_Systems_tripleStick_T2_%28292e%29, then no firmware is seemingly required, but i've seen threads online that i do need firmware. 
>>> 
>>> How have you other 292e users got this running?  
>> 
>> I’m on Ubuntu 14.04.2 with kernel 3.16.0 I definitely needed firmware: dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw 
>> 
>> I didn’t get a /dev/dvb/ node until I got the firmware and re-plugged the adaptor. 
>> 
>> I followed some instructions on Antti’s blog "Naked Hardware” to get the firmware but I can’t find them right now to link to, sorry. 
>> 
>> Andre 
>> 
> 
> i found http://blog.palosaari.fi/2014/04/naked-hardware-15-pctv-triplestick-292e.html, but even after putting the .fw files into the firmware dir and a reboot, still no /dev/dvb/ adapter appears for the 292e.
> my TBS-6981 sat card is getting an adapter assigned and mythtv is happy so definately something specific i'm missing..
> 
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