<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicolas Will</b> <<a href="mailto:nico@youplala.net">nico@youplala.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:56 +0000, Ben Coates wrote:<br>> Hmm, I will try those links you suggested.... only thing is.... why<br>> would it work straight after installing the OS, only to now not work<br>> after reinstalling the same OS 2 days later? I'm a bit of a linux noob<br>
> so I'm puzzled by that.<br><br>Because your distro updated its kernel and now the module want a<br>different firmware file that you do not have.<br><br>Because they have a bug.</blockquote><div><br><br>Or possibly because the PCI-shaped (but actually USB) Nova-T 500 has two startup modes I believe. I wasn't able to upgrade my card with the new firmware until I cold started the whole machine. If you switch it off rather than reboot it loads up firmware from somewhere magic which I used to know but can't remember any more.<br>
<br>See this page: <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI</a><br><br>the dmesg command will show you what happened during the reboot, though I think you're probably out of luck looking back at old dmesg logs.<br>
<br><pre>[ 30.965925] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in cold state, will try to load a firmware<br>[ 31.008899] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-03-pre1.fw'</pre>
<br>As for how to fix it... I have no idea how I got mine working, I just prodded it for two weeks with different kernels and firmware and reboots and it sprung into life. I daren't touch the thing to be honest.<br> <br>
Ben<br></div></div><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:ben@crouchingbadger.com">ben@crouchingbadger.com</a> | <a href="http://crouchingbadger.com">http://crouchingbadger.com</a><br>51.717817,-1.225855