On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Mike Isely wrote: > > There is a minor issue with fwextract.pl and the documentation supporting > it. The fwextract.pl program only searches through the exact directory it > is told to look into; it will not recurse into subdirectories. The > fwextract.pl program is very literal in its interpretation of "the > directory" it is told to examine. Honestly it never even occurred to me > to think about this, but with recent Hauppauge driver packages the files > you really need to point fwextract.pl are in a subdirectory within the zip > file. Thus if you just expand the zip file and point fwextract.pl at its > top level then it won't find anything. Instead you need to point > fwextract.pl inside the extracted tree, at the DriverD2 subdirectory to be > exact. The fact that the pvrusb2 documentation says nothing at all about > nested subdirectories just obfuscates this whole situation. > > I'll see about updating the documentation to clarify this and also > modifying fwextract.pl to either implicitly search any nested > subdirectories or to at least print a warning / suggestion if it > encounters a nested subdirectory during its search... > > -Mike
Problem solved. I've updated fwextract.pl to recursively search all nested subdirectories. I've also updated the documentation so that this is mentioned, and I've included a warning about the fact that it will probably take a LONG time to extract the firmware if you accidentally (for example) specified "/" as the "windows directory" (however it will probably still find it if you wait long enough and have enough virtual memory)... I've also modified fwextract.pl slightly so that the --driverDir option name can be dropped. Just list the directory to scan on the command line. In fact, you can list multiple directories and they will all be scanned. The --driverDir option is still present to preserve old behavior and if nothing at all is specified then "win_driver" is still the default. There's no new driver snapshot strictly needed for this, since you can grab fwextract.pl directly from the site using this link: http://www.isely.net/downloads/fwextract.pl The next snapshot of course will include this. As always, the main pvrusb2 web page can be found here: http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html -Mike -- | Mike Isely | PGP fingerprint Spammers Die!! | | 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 | isely @ pobox (dot) com | 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 | | _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
