identification of the device with which you are having difficulty: Geniatech T230 the device's subsystem ID, taken from the output of lspci -vnn (for PCI/PCIe devices) or lsusb -v (for USB based devices): ID 0572:c688 the environment your running it under (e.g. Fedora 10, with kernel 2.6.27.5, 64-bit), and with what other hardware (e.g. ASUS Core 2 Duo motherboard): Debian 7.7 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux a note of whether you're using the built in kernel drivers supplied by your distro or if you have installed the v4l-dvb driver set, or those from one of the LinuxTV developers' repos installed the v4l-dvb driver set using media_build /var/log/message log: cite the television standard applicable for your device (e.g. ATSC tuner card, PAL capture card) ..................dvb_usb_cxusb: probe of 1-2:1.0 failed with error -22 ...................usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_cxusb Exact sequence of actions that causes your problem. If it is possible, try to provide a simple reproducible test case, as this makes it much easier to track down the actual problem.: Install using the simple procedure of media_build without any indication of error, latest copy of drivers was installed Copied the 2 firmwares relevant to the tuner from openelec Reboot the system Plug in dvb-t stick /dev/dvb file was MISSING ************************************************************************** I googled around and found this post by Crni Gruja: https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/10864?page=8 I downloaded and used his media_build script. (The link to poster's media_build can be found at the above link) The /var/log/message showed: Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34051.900148] usb 7-1: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.032992] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0572, idProduct=c688 Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.033001] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.033008] usb 7-1: Product: USB Stick Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.033013] usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Max Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.033018] usb 7-1: SerialNumber: 080116 Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.033712] dvb-usb: found a 'Mygica T230 DVB-T/T2/C' in warm state. Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.268209] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.268402] DVB: registering new adapter (Mygica T230 DVB-T/T2/C) Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.273649] input: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb7/7-1/input/input11 Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.273806] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 100 msecs. Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat kernel: [34052.273989] dvb-usb: Mygica T230 DVB-T/T2/C successfully initialized and connected. Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat mtp-probe: checking bus 7, device 9: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb7/7-1" Jan 18 11:03:34 jebat mtp-probe: bus: 7, device: 9 was not an MTP device ls -l /dev/dvd: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Jan 18 11:03 adapter0 Best Regards -- 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