Hi list-people, 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? Below is the dmesg output for an unsuccessful as well as a successful firmware load. Nothing changes at all between these reboots. Unsuccessful: [ 5.978979] xc5000 0-0061: creating new instance [ 5.987502] xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61 [ 5.987511] xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously [ 5.988291] au8522 0-0047: attaching existing instance [ 5.998760] xc5000 0-0061: attaching existing instance [ 6.003490] xc5000: Device not found at addr 0x61 (0xffff) Successful: [ 5.747649] xc5000 0-0061: creating new instance [ 5.753530] xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61 [ 5.753538] xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously [ 5.780467] xc5000 0-0061: attaching existing instance [ 5.786412] xc5000: Successfully identified at address 0x61 [ 5.786422] xc5000: Firmware has not been loaded previously [ 9.828553] xc5000: waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw)... [ 9.842687] xc5000: firmware read 12401 bytes. [ 9.842695] xc5000: firmware uploading... [ 16.824059] xc5000: firmware upload complete... --