This is a followup to my thread Re: Nova-HD-S2 Issues

After months of inactivity on my part, I have decided to try and get my nova-HD-S2 card going again and started a new thread to highlight where I have now got to.

I put together a new test machine which is almost identical to my producion box to see if I could get this card working.
Once I'd installed my Nova-HD-S2 card, I ran a few tests.

lvpci sees the card correctly, which is good. However, when I try and scan for channels from within "mythtv-setup" the scan appears to fail almost immidiately. A popup saying "failed to find channels" appears.

After trying to be a bit smarter about whats going on, I did a little googling which directed me to check my kernal log and I got some intersting information:



To try and resolve this, I updated the dvb-firmware package


but this did not have the desired effect. I rebooted to make sure, and tried to scan for channels again. Same issue. Checked the kernal log once more, and I'm seeing the same errors.

Can anyone point me in the right direction what to do next?

Should I download a copy of the cx24116 firmware, from here (?) and put it in the appropriate place? Though I need to work out how to do this and where the approprite place to put it is.

Should I just put a ticket in for this? Or is it going to be included in the new v4l-dvb drivers? (As seen here) issue 844?

Thanks

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

As far as I can tell we don't provide that firmware in any LinHES packages. And from the dmesg log it looks like you haven't added it or it is the wrong version. Try downloading the firmware, extract it and put it in /lib/firmware then reboot and see what dmesg says. If it does load please open a ticket and I will add it to dvb-firmware.

Right, have managed to get my Nova-HD-S2 working.

I used the guidance on this website and followed these instructions.



I ran the wget command in a new folder and unzipped it there.
I ran the sudo dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=/lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.26.90.0.fw bs=1 skip=105768 count=32290, then sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.26.90.0.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw.
However, the name of the firmware did not exist to make the symbolic link. I renamed dvb-fe-cx24116-1.26.90.0.fe to dvb-fe-cx24116.fw and it all worked.
Actually - that's what I did on my test box. On my production box, I edited the code to extract the firmware to read:
sudo dd if=hcw88bda.sys of=/lib/firmware/dvb-fe-cx24116-1.fw bs=1 skip=105768 count=32290

Job done.

Will open a ticket. But very pleased it now works. Added bonus, my remote works with no extra tweaks. Just need to remember how to set the jump points and set the remote to use them.

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)