[pvrusb2] HVR-1900 dvb-t problems

[Aljaž Prusnik]

Hi all!

On pet, 2010-03-19 at 13:39 -0500, Mike Isely wrote:
> It's certainly possible that the dvb driver for a given tuner might 
> require additional firmware.  Admittedly I have not done a very good job 
> of tracking that since actual tuner handling is part of the DVB core not 
> the pvrusb2 driver.  My understanding to-date is that such additional 
> firmware is NOT needed.  In any case the pvrusb2 driver documentation 
> doesn't right now attempt to document anything there which might be 
> misleading people.  So...
> 
> 1. Do you know for a fact that this firmware is required for the 
> HVR-1900 that you have?
> 
> 2. Can you send me a copy of it or point me to a link where it might be 
> on the net?  With a representative sample in hand, I can easily update 
> fwextract.pl to look for this file when it locates everything else.
> 

We had a similar discussion here a while ago, when I had these problems
with HVR-1900 (here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/pvrusb2@isely.net/msg01243.html)

The fact is, for HVR-1900 in order to get DVB-T working you need this
firmware. I got it here: