[pvrusb2] Kernel 2.6.22 and firmware loading on a NAS

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:47, Reinhold Kainhofer <lists at kainhofer.com> wrote:
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> I placed the correct file in /lib/firmware/

Various distributions place the firmware in various places.
You could obtain the source code from D-Link to determine
where it should be placed.

Or you could use brute force, and try putting the
firmware into the usual places one at a time to
see if it works:

/lib/firmware/<KERNEL_VERSION>/
/lib/firmware/
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

If none of those work, the next brute-force
attempt would be to do a find trying to locate
any possible directory named firmware and
see if that works.

If those fails, it would be back to the source
method.  It is also possible D-Link does
not include the firmware loading capability
in their embedded box distributions.  In
which case you would have to cross-compile
a new kernel (and while you are at it, perhaps
a recent version of the kernel)

Gary