Bug 786571

Summary: Hauppauge Nova-T Stick: dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file -- fixed by modprobe -r dvb_usb_dib0700
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: kernelAssignee: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: drfudgeboy, gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, kernel-maint, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, mhlavink, simonhandy
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-02-01 19:47:03 UTC
Description of problem:

The kernel loads the firmware first time for this stick.  However
if you unplug and plug in the stick, it fails to reload the firmware,
saying:

Feb  1 19:25:40 spin kernel: [3311344.655369] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
Feb  1 19:26:41 spin kernel: [3311405.298283] dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2)

The "solution" to this is to:

(1) unplug the stick

(2) kill gnome-dvb-daemon
    (generally a good idea anyway since this is a crap bit of software)

(3) modprobe -r dvb_usb_dib0700

(4) modprobe -r dvb_usb

(5) plug in the stick

(6) it now succeeds to load the firmware

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.2.0-0.rc1.git2.1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-02-01 19:47:54 UTC
This Ubuntu bug seems relevant:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/388383

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2012-02-01 20:05:08 UTC
I'm guessing latest rawhide (3.3.0-0.rc2.git0.2.fc17) exhibits the same issue?  3.2-rc1 is rather stale.

Mauro?

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-02-14 19:29:22 UTC
Sorry for the delay.  I updated my kernel the other day and
the same issue occurs with this kernel:

Linux spin.home.annexia.org 3.3.0-0.rc2.git4.1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 6 17:53:24 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Comment 4 James Heather 2012-06-03 19:23:21 UTC
I'm seeing this too, on a Freecom DVB stick ("WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (Typhoon/Freecom)").

I'm running a fully up to date Fedora 17 installation.

Comment 5 Simon Handy 2012-07-13 14:11:15 UTC
I too see this with a Freecom DVB stick on a Fresh FC17 install.

dvb-usb-wt220u-02.fw firmware

uname -rv 3.4.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 5 20:20:59 UTC 2012

udev-182-3.fc17.x86_64

Please advise which/any logs would be required for debugging.

Thanks.

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 16:06:20 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Comment 7 Justin M. Forbes 2013-04-05 18:39:41 UTC
Is this still an issue with the 3.9 kernels in F19?

Comment 8 Justin M. Forbes 2013-04-23 17:27:00 UTC
This bug is being closed with INSUFFICIENT_DATA as there has not been a
response in 2 weeks.  If you are still experiencing this issue,
please reopen and attach the relevant data from the latest kernel you are
running and any data that might have been requested previously.