Hauppage Nova TD500 "unable to find firmware"

Hello all.
It has been a while since my last post because thankfully I have had trouble-free computing! Now I have encountered a problem when trying to create a Myth .24 setup on a fresh, clean OpenSuse11.3 installation.

I have installed the OS and then installed Myth (using packman repo) and started to configure it (ie created the DB and the specific Myth schemas) however when I try to configure the card I am told “Unable to open the device”.

I am far from an expert here but found that if I do lsusb and dmesg | grep dvb, I can find a little more about the problem …


bgrsvr-u:~ # lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2040:8400 Hauppauge
bgrsvr-u:~ # dmesg | grep dvb
   11.271382] dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
   11.271388] usb 2-1: firmware: requesting dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw
   11.288966] 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)
   11.289011] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700
bgrsvr-u:~ # ls -l /lib/firmware/
total 1692
-rw-r--r--  1 a_normal_user users   33768 Jan  9 18:19 dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw

nb; Irrelevent outputs of ls -l and lsusb have been removed.

I downloaded the FW fle from the internet (sorry forgot to bookmark the source) and moved into the “/lib/firmware” folder.

Anyone any ideas what’s going on please?

Source found –> Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T-500 - LinuxTVWiki and http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/home/files/dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw

I’ve also been reading google and found some pages which seem to indicate that this SHOULD work OK …
HCL:TV - openSUSE
DVB-T PCI Cards - LinuxTVWiki
Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T-500 - LinuxTVWiki –> How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Drivers - LinuxTVWiki (however, the “git” instructions result in a failure … “linuxtv.org[0: 130.149.80.248]: errno=Connection timed out”)