On Saturday 02 September 2006 17:03, Mark Howells wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Freecom USB DVB-T stick. I have d/loaded the drivers from the > mercurial archive and compiled/installed the following drivers :- dvb-core, > dvb-usb, dvb-usb-dtt200u. All seems to be well, I grabbed the firmware > file 'dvb-usb-wt220u-zl0353-01.fw' and the card lights up its LED. However, > dmesg reports a 'bulk message' error Now I've got my devices built and installed I get exactly the same - I am trying to use scan to get as far as finding channels - and scan reports tuning failure. alan@roo:~$ scan -a 0 /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace scanning /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' initial transponder 505833333 0 3 9 1 0 0 0 >>> tune to: 505833333:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! >>> tune to: 505833333:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE (tuning failed) WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! ERROR: initial tuning failed dumping lists (0 services) Done. alan@roo:~$ (my devices are id:14aa,0225 and the firmware is dvb-usb-wt220u-fc03.fw) Someone of the mythtv mailing list suggested I edit the scan file to change the 505833333 to 506000000 and it improves the situation slightly alan@roo:~$ scan uk-CrystalPalace scanning uk-CrystalPalace using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' initial transponder 506000000 0 3 9 1 0 0 0 >>> tune to: 506000000:INVERSION_AUTO:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_3_4:FEC_AUTO:QAM_16:TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32:HIERARCHY_NONE WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0011 WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0000 WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0010 dumping lists (0 services) Done. It is probably relevent that syslog is full of this Sep 3 19:21:16 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -71 Sep 3 19:21:16 roo kernel: dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -71 (1/0) Sep 3 19:21:16 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -71 Sep 3 19:21:28 roo last message repeated 8 times Sep 3 19:21:28 roo kernel: dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -71 (1/0) Sep 3 19:21:29 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -71 Sep 3 19:21:30 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -71 Sep 3 19:21:32 roo kernel: dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -71 (1/0) Sep 3 19:21:32 roo kernel: dvb-usb: recv bulk message failed: -71 Sep 3 19:21:33 roo kernel: dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -71 (1/0) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb