On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Mike Isely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just upgaded to OpenSuSE 11 and my PVR USB2 (29022 series) has gone >> missing. The message which has accompanied that has accompanied that >> even reads as follows: >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> pvrusb2: Device being rendered inoperable >> usb 7-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 85 >> usb 7-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice >> usb 7-4: New USB device found, idVendor=2040, idProduct=2900 >> usb 7-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 >> usb 7-4: Product: USB Device >> usb 7-4: Manufacturer: Hauppauge >> pvrusb2: Device microcontroller firmware (re)loaded; it should now >> reset and reconnect. >> usb 7-4: USB disconnect, address 85 >> pvrusb2: Device being rendered inoperable >> usb 7-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 86 >> usb 7-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice >> usb 7-4: New USB device found, idVendor=2040, idProduct=2900 >> usb 7-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 >> usb 7-4: Product: USB Device >> usb 7-4: Manufacturer: Hauppauge >> pvrusb2: Device microcontroller firmware (re)loaded; it should now >> reset and reconnect. >> usb 7-4: USB disconnect, address 86 >> pvrusb2: Device being rendered inoperable >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Well it looks like the FX2 firmware was loaded to the device, then the > hardware "went off the rails". The normal action after the FX2 firmware > is loaded is that the device will disconnect, then reconnect, then the > driver will (re)discover it, note that the FX2 firmware is already > present and proceed with the rest of the initialization. Looks like it > failed to notice that the firmware had been reload and things just went > to crap after that. > > >> >> After that is goes "missing", so much so that lsusb no longer displays it. >> >> The device worked fine under 10.3 Attempts to extract firmware from >> the Windows drivers have thus far failed. > > The firmware is probably OK - if it worked before the upgrade and > assuming the upgrade process didn't erase the firmware files in your > file system. > > Firmware extraction should have worked fine - have you been able to do > that in the past? I wonder if the CD media you have is older than the > anything I've used to train the script? You should also be able to just > download a new driver package from Hauppauge's site and extract from > that as well. > > You can also use the firmware tarball from ivtvdriver.org. > > But with all that said, it doesn't seem like bad firmware would be the > issue if you had it working before. > >> >> Any idea what could have lead to this? >> >> The kernel I am running is: >> >> Linux vorkuta 2.6.25.11-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-07-13 20:48:28 +0200 i686 >> i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > I have a 29022 device (older than the 29032 that is more common). I'll > try it on the 2.6.25 vanilla kernel and verify that it still works. > Earliest chance I will get is tomorrow night however. I'm not a Suse > user so I can't comment on anything about the Suse installation. If > there's someone else here who is a Suse user, perhaps he/she can chime > in? > > -Mike > > > -- > > Mike Isely > isely @ pobox (dot) com > PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 > _______________________________________________ > pvrusb2 mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2 >
Thanks Mike! Does anyone have those firmware files (different versions) already extracted and available for download somewhere? I guess it is unlikely they are to blame but that is still possible. Boris. _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
