On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:44:41 -0400
Lew Pitcher <lpitc
...@teksavvy.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 06 October 2012 11:24, in comp.os.linux.hardware,
> markus.he
...@uni-dortmund.de wrote:
> > I have configured a linux 3.6 kernel by running make oldconfig on a
> > linux 3.5 kernel config. The resulting kernel does no longer include
> > the driver for my USB DVB-T stick. I have searched through make
> > menuconfig but cannot find the option to reenable the required
> > driver.
> > This is my USB DVB-T stick:
> > Bus 001 Device 005: ID 15a4:9016 Afatech Technologies, Inc. AF9015
> > DVB-T USB2.0 stick
> If the above report comes from lsusb on your 3.6 kernel, then the
> linux kernel probably has the proper driver for the device.
This output comes from a linux 3.5 kernel. With linux 3.6 the driver is
not even listed in make menuconfig.
> I note that, from the LinuxTV site
> (
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Afatech_AF9015) some variations of
> the driver need firmware, located in
> the /lib/firmware/<kernel-version> directory. Note that the path to
> this directory contains the kernel version number, which in your case
> has changed from 3.5 to 3.6. You might want to investigate the
> contents of your older /lib/firmware/3.5* directories to see if there
> is firmware for the dvb stick there, and copy it to
> the /lib/firmware/3.6* directory.
I have the firmware for the USB DVB-T stick under /lib/firmware. The
problem is that I cannot get make menuconfig to include the driver.
Many other DVB-T drivers are not selectable too.
Regards
Markus
