[pvrusb2] KnoppMyth R5A26 backend with pvrusb2

[Mike Isely]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, xavier.gnata at free.fr wrote:

> Quoting Mike Isely <isely at isely.net>:
>
>> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Roger J. Allen wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Mike Isely wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Roger J. Allen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Mike Isely wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A long time ago the KnoppMyth community expressed an interest in
>>>>>> including the pvrusb2 driver directly into KnoppMyth.  This was roughly
>>>>>> back around last May.  At the time the driver was not all that stable so
>>>>>> I kind of "warned them off" for the time being.  Since that time things
>>>>>> have improved considerably.  A while I posted an update on the forum
>>>>>> discussion thread, suggesting that it might be worth trying now.  I
>> never
>>>>>> saw a reply. Probably the message wasn't noticed.  But since you have an
>>>>>> interest in this, perhaps you might want to bend their ears a little -
>>>>>> especially since you've already blazed the trail to show that it can be
>>>>>> made to work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  -Mike
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I got a positive response:
>>>
>>> http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=41188#41188
>>>
>>
>> Yup.  And last night Cecil IM'ed me to let me know that it has been pulled
>> into Knoppix.  I found the discussion thread above shortly afterwards.
>> Thanks for following up on this.
>>
>>    -Mike
>
>
> Hum Knoppix is a liveCD so what about the firmwares?
> They can not be included on the CD.
> Are they automatically downloaded from Hauppauge site (or something like that)?
>
> Xavier

Sorry, I meant KnoppMyth not Knoppix itself (why would Knoppix want this 
after all).

As for KnoppMyth, I am not an expert on this, but there appears to be a 
way to script additional stuff into the system, and the discussion thread 
that Roger pasted a URL for hints at that.

   -Mike


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