USB firmware problem

[Dave Robinson]

I' m trying to get a SIIG USB frame grabber working on the Pi. I have followed the instructions on the Easycap wiki, but hit this problem:

somagic-init firmware file '/lib/firmware/somagic_firmware.bin' was not recognized

I extracted the firmware from SmiUsbGrabber3F.sys on a Windows machine where the USB stick was first used.

The file appears to be hex bin file, so I'm not sure what I got wrong in the process.

Cheers

Dave

[Bartek Zdanowski]

file now should be renamed to smi2021_3f.bin and put in /lib/firmware

[Jon Arne Jørgensen]

The renaming is only necessary for the kernel module, I don't remember
where the somagic-init program looks for the firmware...

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[Bartek Zdanowski]

it can be pointed with -f option

On Saturday, August 2, 2014 5:52:15 PM UTC+2, Jon Arne wrote:

The renaming is only necessary for the kernel module, I don't remember
where the somagic-init program looks for the firmware...

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Bartek Zdanowski
<bartek.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> file now should be renamed to smi2021_3f.bin and put in /lib/firmware
>
>
> On Friday, April 4, 2014 9:12:31 PM UTC+2, Dave Robinson wrote:
>>
>> I' m trying to get a SIIG USB frame grabber working on the Pi. I have
>> followed the instructions on the Easycap wiki, but hit this problem:
>>
>> somagic-init firmware file '/lib/firmware/somagic_firmware.bin' was not
>> recognized
>>
>> I extracted the firmware from SmiUsbGrabber3F.sys on a Windows machine
>> where the USB stick was first used.
>> The file appears to be hex bin file, so I'm not sure what I got wrong in
>> the process.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave
>>
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[Dave Robinson]

It's been a while since I worked on it as I repurposed the Pi for another project. I'll try to resurrect the DVR project. But why would renaming the file overcome the error message? It's essentially the same file, just renamed.

Thanks everyone. Will post an update  when I retry it.