Hi mate. Tried warm booting after running a windows session? It might load the firmware for you as a first step? On 7/20/09, Rodd Clarkson <rodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All > > I recently acquired a Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop that comes equiped with > a TV tuner card which I would like to get working with Linux. > > As a reference point, I'm using Fedora 11 and I live in Australia. > > Looking in dmesg, it wants to load sms1xxx-nova-b-dvbt-01.fw, but I > don't have the file in /lib/firmware > > I've searched for it on google, but apart from some kernel patches (that > seem to help better identify the right firmware for the card) the only > page that seems to help (and it's in German, which I don't speak) is > this: > > http://www.der-schnorz.de/?p=92 > > This page suggests renaming the sms1xxx-hcw-55xxx-dvbt-01.fw, which I've > tried, but with which I'm not having a lot of luck. > > Initially in MythTV it detected the channels, but it never tuned into > channels and now won't even detect the channels. > > Looking at the kernel source for Fedora 11, there's > driver/media/dvd/siano, but again, I don't think this is actual firmware > for the card. > > I guess what I'm getting to is: > > Is this card supported at this stage? > Where do I get the correct firmware from? > > The www.siano-ms.com site seems to suggest they support Linux, but > there's no download pages and no search which makes finding firmware > hard. > > > Rodd > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb users mailing list > For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > -- Sent from my mobile device -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
