Hello - I thought I should share the experience of (what seems like) a bricked Hauppaughe nova-t-usb2 USB DVB-T tuner; it worked up until a few days ago, then after some rearrangement of cabling, I get this on whichever of my three machines I plug it into (I have an i386, amd64 and powerpc machine at home for good measure!): [13450.058031] usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 [13450.267194] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [13450.548721] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T usb2' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [13450.657741] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-nova-t-usb2-02.fw' [13450.737687] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_nova_t_usb2 [13450.738275] usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 7 [13450.738453] dvb-usb: generic DVB-USB module successfully deinitialized and disconnected. [13452.486029] usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 [13452.621180] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [13452.621359] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T usb2' in warm state. [13452.621562] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [13452.621848] DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T usb2) [13452.622146] dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -71 (5/0) [13452.622388] dvb-usb: bulk message failed: -71 (5/0) [13452.625587] dvb-usb: MAC address: 00:0d:fe:f0:e2:e2 [13452.627154] dvb-usb: no frontend was attached by 'Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T usb2' [13452.627473] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /class/input/input5 [13452.627508] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 100 msecs. [13452.627515] dvb-usb: Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T usb2 successfully initialized and connected. The MAC reported doesn't match what's on the box, though is slightly different on each architecture. I've tried with 2.6.22-3-amd64, 2.6.22-12-powerpc and 2.6.24-i386 (I think) from the latest Ubuntu/hardy release. On each one I've tried compiling the latest dvb stuff from Mercurial and get the same reaction. As a final sanity check, since this was working a few days ago, I plugged the box into a fresh XP install, got the latest drivers from Hauppauge and while the device claims to register with Windows properly, it can't find any channels any more (I checked the aerial with another DVB stick, works fine). The official Hauppauge software is a real dog's dinner, looks like something dragged screaming from Windows 3.1, but I'm sure "out of the box" it shouldn't have this trouble. It seems like some combination of my plugging & unplugging this box has bricked the tuner somehow - every time I've tried it before on any other platform, it has worked straight off once the firmware is in place (which it is on all three of my machines) The 'no frontend was attached' error has been reported on this list before without anyone posting a definite resolution, e.g.: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-July/011690.html Does anyone have an idea what might have gone wrong with it? -- Matthew _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
