So here we are in October 2017 I have the same issue since upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04 tried Other Ubuntu Variants. All was well before upgrade. Afterwards Tevii S480 stopped working and it seems it is related to this bug. The firmware is all there just never gets loaded.
dvb-usb: found a 'TeVii S660 USB' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [ 21.609353] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-s660.fw' [ 21.760021] dvb-usb: found a 'TeVii S660 USB' in warm state. [ 21.760157] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 22.011709] dvb-usb: MAC address: 00:18:bd:5b:34:19 [ 22.672195] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs. [ 22.672197] dvb-usb: TeVii S660 USB successfully initialized and connected. [ 22.672223] dvb-usb: found a 'TeVii S660 USB' in cold state, will try to load a firmware [ 22.672248] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-s660.fw' [ 22.828038] dvb-usb: found a 'TeVii S660 USB' in warm state. [ 22.828188] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. [ 23.066430] dvb-usb: MAC address: 00:18:bd:5b:34:1a [ 23.085944] dvb-usb: schedule remote query interval to 150 msecs. [ 23.085945] dvb-usb: TeVii S660 USB successfully initialized and connected. [ 2439.905073] ds3000_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-ds3000.fw)... [ 2440.548843] ds3000_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-ds3000.fw)... Is there any light on the horizon with a fix for this or a workaround? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1326761 Title: Tevii S471 DVB-S2 card hangs on firmware upload Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have fresh installed Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (Server) with kernel 3.13.0-29. Firmware file dvb-fe-ds3000.fw is putted into /lib/firmware On a system cold start I see in syslog: Jun 5 16:00:54 MMC kernel: [ 9.601460] cx23885 driver version 0.0.3 loaded Jun 5 16:00:54 MMC kernel: [ 9.601881] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: d471:9022, board: TeVii S471 [card=35,autodetected] Jun 5 16:00:54 MMC kernel: [ 9.750010] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s) Jun 5 16:00:54 MMC kernel: [ 9.758499] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card Jun 5 16:00:54 MMC kernel: [ 9.879035] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0]) Jun 5 16:00:54 MMC kernel: [ 9.879047] cx23885 0000:01:00.0: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Montage Technology DS3000)... Jun 5 16:00:54 MMC kernel: [ 9.894578] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xa5 Jun 5 16:00:54 MMC kernel: [ 9.894595] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:01:00.0, rev: 4, irq: 16, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfe800000 But if I try to scan channels by scan or tvheadend I see this repeated lines: Jun 5 16:01:04 MMC kernel: [ 20.051633] ds3000_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-ds3000.fw)... Jun 5 16:01:04 MMC kernel: [ 20.052608] ds3000_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... Card works under Debian linux kernel image from unstable repo (linux- image-3.14.1) manjur@MMC:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 manjur@MMC:~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-generic linux-image-generic: Installed: 3.13.0.29.35 Candidate: 3.13.0.29.35 Version table: *** 3.13.0.29.35 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.13.0.27.33 0 500 http://kz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages 3.13.0.24.28 0 500 http://kz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: linux-image-3.13.0-29-generic 3.13.0-29.52 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.52-generic 3.13.11.2 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC1', '/dev/snd/hwC1D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D1p', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D2c', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iw' Date: Thu Jun 5 17:31:07 2014 IwConfig: eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. 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ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-29-generic root=UUID=e93b9d23-aced-4d3c-bb1e-07346406d8de ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-29-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-29-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.127.2 RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill' SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 05/21/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: P1.60 dmi.board.name: E350M1/USB3 dmi.board.vendor: ASRock dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.60:bd05/21/2012:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnE350M1/USB3:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. 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