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dvb-fe-tda10045.fw missing

Asked by paul-cyt

dvb-fe-tda10045.fw is missing and is required for some DVB-T cards (NovaT PCI and HVR 1300?)

This firmware is not available in package linux-firmware-nonfree, nor can I grab directly with get_dvb_firmware script

Using Mythbunutu 10.04 64bit: (Build from 5/3/2010)

$ ./get_dvb_firmware tda10045

--2010-03-06 11:59:58-- http://www.technotrend.de/new/217g/tt_budget_217g.zip
Resolving www.technotrend.de... 212.185.20.148
Connecting to www.technotrend.de|212.185.20.148|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2010-03-06 11:59:58 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

wget failed - unable to download firmware at ./get_dvb_firmware line 577.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

The file doesn't exist when i click the link you made.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1423062

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paul-cyt (paul-mail26) said : 		#2

You are correct. Seems like technotrend moved things about on the website, but the result is a can't get the firmware for my DVB card.

How should I proceed with this enquiry?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

There is a command and file on the link I gave telling you to run a command (also listed on the same page) to get the file you need.

so the short answer is: click the link and read.

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paul-cyt (paul-mail26) said : 		#4

Doh! That me making that forum post (take a look at the nickname)
I Googled for hours to find that rpm and then a way to extract the file.

While this is a fix, its using files outside Ubuntu and I have no clue if this firmware is old/current.

Can you see if this firmware has ever been included in this package? Or ask someone if they have the file - I'm happy to load this end and try and work out which is the latest firmware.

Alternatively we need to figure out a way to extract the firmware from the windows driver files for the hauppauge nova-t pci which I believe is the same card.

I beg for you help - you can see that I already made various forum posts on this subject - I'm feeling lonely :-(
Maybe you have better contacts for this type of file?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

As long as its the right file and it works it doesn't matter if its old or new or old. If it works then it works

You can use dpkg -S to find the filename in the packages but I think yuo will just have to use that file, the file is from another Linux ditro so is the same OS essentially.

Can you help with this problem?

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