> Ok, I have a tv capture dongle on my media center. It's a hauppauge > xc5000-based device, and requires firmware be loaded for it to work. > > The problem is it can't seem to find the device four out of five times. So > everytime I reboot, I have to reboot five times. > > I've tried to find a way to manually load firmware, but I haven't found > anything. Anyone have any ideas? I believe that firmware gets loaded when the associated kernel module gets loaded. If you can figure out which kernel module you need you should be able to use modprobe -r to remove it (if it got inserted initially) and modprobe to insert it. If that works consistently then you could look into adding a file in /etc/modprobe.d or the appropriate configuration place for your distro which would delay inserting that module until the firmware is available. -- Michael More