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I have a Hauppauge hvr-2200 and am using it on Mythbuntu Lucid.  The
firmware for the card is not included in Mythbuntu and has to be
manually extracted and moved to the lib firmware folder each kernel
update.

I've managed to make the card work by: 
(1) putting it in the machine and then reading dmesg, which said that it 
couldn't load the firmware (someone else's output follows):
[    5.065271] saa7164[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver.
[    5.065272] saa7164[0]: Try to pick one of the existing card configs via
[    5.065273] saa7164[0]: card=<n> insmod option.  Updating to the latest
[    5.065273] saa7164[0]: version might help as well.
[    5.065276] saa7164[0]: Here are valid choices for the card=<n> insmod 
option:
[    5.065278] saa7164[0]:    card=0 -> Unknown
[    5.065280] saa7164[0]:    card=1 -> Generic Rev2
[    5.065281] saa7164[0]:    card=2 -> Generic Rev3
[    5.065283] saa7164[0]:    card=3 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250
[    5.065285] saa7164[0]:    card=4 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
[    5.065286] saa7164[0]:    card=5 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
[    5.065288] saa7164[0]:    card=6 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2200
[    5.065290] saa7164[0]:    card=7 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250
[    5.065291] saa7164[0]:    card=8 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250

(2) I then followed these instructions 
http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/showthread.php/38864-Hauppauge-HVR-2200-Tuner-Install-Guide?p=286124&viewfull=1
 to do a modprobe card=4 and add it to the options file so that it stays after 
reboot.
(3) this didn't work and gave an error about not finding the firmware to 
upload, so I had to extract the firmware with the instructions here 
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7344302

I understand why my card is not yet supported, but I don't understand
why the firmware is not included. Is it a licensing issue?

** Affects: linux-firmware-nonfree (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: kj-triage needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing
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Hauppauge hvr-2200 firmware not included
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579783
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