[mythtv-users] debian: can't install ivtv driver

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my pvr card came today, but I can't get the module to load. I've been
following the instructions from here:
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian_Etch

and here:
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Debian

I ran module-assistant and it said it was installed:

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root at moe:~ # uname -r
2.6.24.2

root at moe:# module-assistant auto-install ivtv

Updated infos about 1 packages
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24.2
Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.24.2/source
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.

Done!
unpack
Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/ivtv.tar.bz2, please wait...
Target package file /usr/src/ivtv-modules-2.6.24.2_1.0.3-2_i386.deb
already exists, not
rebuilding!
(however, you could use the -f switch to ignore it)
dpkg -Ei /usr/src/ivtv-modules-2.6.24.2_1.0.3-2_i386.deb
Version 1.0.3-2 of ivtv-modules-2.6.24.2 already installed, skipping.
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I downloaded and extracted the firmware into /lib/firmware, as
described in wiki 1:

root at moe:/lib/firmware # ls
firmware-20060701.tar.gz  v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw    v4l-cx25840.fw
license-end-user.txt      v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw    v4l-pvrusb2-24xxx-01.fw
license-oemihvisv.txt     v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg  v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw

I have ivtv-utils, but there is no ivtv-make-fwpkg as in wiki 2, so I
couldn't try that method. But it's in the directory, so that should
work, shouldn't it?

but still nothing:
root at moe:~ # modprobe ivtv
FATAL: Module ivtv not found.

I've looked at three different guides for installing firmware, and
they all say something different. I can't figure out what I'm doing
wrong, can anyone point me in the right direction?