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author | Andrew de Quincy <devnull@localhost> | 2004-08-26 18:05:18 +0000 |
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committer | Andrew de Quincy <devnull@localhost> | 2004-08-26 18:05:18 +0000 |
commit | 62525e8bd6a4a521756045e14978c17d80191ec0 (patch) | |
tree | 3ecab82ce913101c2a1c011f91be6d29e5cad9a2 /linux/Documentation/dvb/vp7041.txt | |
parent | 743c0cb9646b60661e2b69252bd823ce1c4d849f (diff) | |
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Updated docs for new firmware download script
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diff --git a/linux/Documentation/dvb/vp7041.txt b/linux/Documentation/dvb/vp7041.txt index fe8ddae14..a706f3be5 100644 --- a/linux/Documentation/dvb/vp7041.txt +++ b/linux/Documentation/dvb/vp7041.txt @@ -65,29 +65,8 @@ the hotplug-path) needn't match your system, but probably it will :). First of all you have to extract the firmware from the windows driver: -Therefore "Peter Schildmann" originally wrote a shell script, I adopted -it to a Perl script for easier supporting different firmware version. -The firmware extract script can be found inside the dvb-kernel-cvs -(script/vp7041_extract_firmware.pl). - -If you want to extract the firmware, you have to run the script like this: - -perl vp7041_extract_firmware.pl <driverfile> <fw-destination-path> - -The driverfile can be found in the windows driver package. As of version -2.42 the windows driver the file is called "UDTTload.sys", older (but -working) versions have "twinload.sys" respectively . (On a -windows system, where the driver is in use, it can be found in -\PathtoWindows\System32\drivers) -The name of the firmware-file for linux has to be "dvb-vp7041-<ver>.fw" -(the script cares about). -The firmware has to be put into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware (As I said -Debian). - -If you figured out the driver file extract the firmware: - -perl vp7041_extract_firmware.pl /path/to/UDTTload.sys \ - /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware +Please use the command "get_dvb_firmware vp7041" to download and extract the +firmware. Then copy it to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. 1.2. Compiling |