<div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">I'm having trouble, we presume with the
app-loaded firmware, on a Hauppage HVR-2250 (dual HD) Tuner card.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Background:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">I've built a Frontend/Backend box with
the following:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Intel DH77KC motherboard,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Intel i3-3240 C5U (LGA115)
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">a pair of KingSton memory sticks:
“KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">and a refurbished 1TB HD from one of
the big names.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Also included would be the (first)
tuner card, the Hauppage HVR-2250.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">BTW, the Update Manager wants me to
update the:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">“Header files related to Linux kernel
version 3.2.0”,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">so I thought that I must be running
some version less than 3.2 the version.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">BUT, when I typed in the “uname -r”
command, the response I got was:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">“3.5.0-23-generic”. Huh.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Another command line entry of:
“apt-cache policy mythtv” gave me the results (identical for
Installed and Candidate) of:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">2:0.25.2+fixes.20120802.46cab93-0ubuntu1
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">{BTW, Do NOT assume that I know what
I'm doing with these command line entries!!!}
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">The OS/Software that has been installed
include:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">MythBuntu-12.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">That didn't get the card working, so I
then reinstalled
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">MythBuntu again, then
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Swapped out the HVR-2250 for another
one (no effect), then installed</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64, then
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Added in another Hauppage card, this
one a HVR-1800,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">...re-installed MythBuntu and MythBuntu
again...
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">...before I got some more qualified
help to figure out at least a part of the problem.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">---</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Here's the first thing he looked up:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">dmesg | grep -i haup
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">[ 6.693488] CORE saa7164[0]:
subsystem: 0070:8851, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 2250
[card=7,autodetected]
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">[ 6.889861] CORE cx23885[0]:
subsystem: 0070:7801, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1800
[card=2,autodetected]
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">...and two more lines.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">This told him that both cards were
“alive” and responding.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Which is not the same thing as saying
that MythBuntu is set up to work with them.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">---
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">In subsequent configuration attempts,
we found out that we were able to get the secondary card (the 1800)
to configure and work with the software.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">The original card however, (the 2250)
kept giving us fits.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">As a result of other command-line
inquiries, my friend came to the conclusion that the MythBuntu-loaded
firmware for the 2250 just was NOT there, and we needed to go out
into the web and find it.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">So, at this web page:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">
<a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2250">http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2250</a>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">we selected this link:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><a name="Firmware"></a> The windows
driver and linux firmware extraction scripts are up
on <a href="http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx">http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx</a></p>
<p><br>Following the (not to clear) instructions we found there, we
created some firmware for the 2250, installed it, and...
</p>
<p><br><br>
</p>
<p>It's corrupted.
</p>
<p>Back to almost square one.
</p>
<p><br><br>
</p>
<p>This is where you come in...
</p>
<p> ...What do I do next to get the 2250 running?
</p>
<p><br><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">p.s.:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">I only JUST found out about:</p>
<pre class=""> <a href="http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?cat=3">http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?cat=3</a></pre><p style="margin-bottom:0in">
We have NOT tried this web page's resource(s) as of yet.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">p.p.s.:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">At first, I could not recall if we ever
used the LinuxTV resources. However, the firmware link at:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><a href="http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2250">http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2250</a>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">...goes to the exact same “steventoth”
source referenced above!
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">.</p>
</div>