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FS#15963 - Fimware missing for Freecom DVB-T

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dougie Richardson (dougierichardson) - Monday, 17 August 2009, 10:08 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 04 September 2009, 20:44 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Firmware for Freecom DVB-T is missing from /lib/firmware. When plugging device in there is an error message in dmesg requesting the attached firmware:

Aug 14 00:14:49 aspireone kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'WideView WT-220U PenType Receiver (based on ZL353)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
Aug 14 00:14:49 aspireone kernel: usb 1-2: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-wt220u-zl0353-01.fw
Aug 14 00:14:49 aspireone kernel: dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (dvb-usb-wt220u-zl0353-01.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2)

Additional info: We had the same issue in Ubuntu, we had the firmware, it went missing and we repackaged. It's trivial, if you check logs - new users don't ;-)

* kernel26-firmware 2.6.30-1
* Firmware attached

Steps to reproduce:
* Plug in Freecom DVB-T USB card.
* Check dmesg
(application/x-gzip)    dvb-usb-wt220u-zl0353-01.fw.t... (5.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Friday, 04 September 2009, 20:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Not part of kernel sources. A package in AUR is the way to go.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 17 August 2009, 16:01 GMT
Seems that this firmware, and others are not part of Linux source tree, you need to download from http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/
Comment by Dougie Richardson (dougierichardson) - Monday, 17 August 2009, 17:24 GMT
I know where to obtain it, I attached it to the bug!

It's very small and as I said, the message is in the logs not displayed at the console, so for anyone unfamiliar with the system this may not be an apparent nor trivial issue.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 17 August 2009, 18:13 GMT
  • Field changed: Task Type (Bug Report → Feature Request)
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Waiting on Response)
  • Field changed: Architecture (i686 → All)
  • Task assigned to Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Yes, but kernel26-firmware only provide firmwares in Linux source tree, not others. Size does not matter in this case. Maybe if you are interested can create a PKGBUILD for it and submit to AUR, like is done for other firmwares.

Maybe, I am not sure, these firmwares are not in Linux tree by licenses issues.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 17:50 GMT
I'd recommend putting a PKGBUILD in the AUR, and we can bubble it up based on popularity.

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