6984, 6985, 6908 not working with Intel coffeelake

[wdirksen]

Hi All,
I am having no luck at all trying to upgrade from an functioning but aging Intel Sandybridge system to a new system with Intel i5-8400 + H370 chipset. I already tried AMD Ryzen to no avail. (#111) So I've now gave up on AMD and just bought this Intel 8th gen based system which is also not working ... grumble

I tried running both Arch on 4.14 LTS kernel and on Debian Stretch with both 4.9 and 4.14 with similar dmesg readouts so the issue is not likely related to Linux specific issue.

However I now noticed something obvious: According to dmesg, No firmware is being loaded. This was also the case for AMD Ryzen. Firmware is necessary fro these cards to work and firmware always loads in working Sandybridge system.

Also, referencing #56:
The OP has the following options modprobed
options tbs_pcie-dvb tbs_int_type=1
options saa716x_tbs-dvb int_type=1
Do I need to specify such options in my situation? I didn't need them for the old system.

Will send dmesg outputs later. Any thoughts?

[crazycat69]

Try 4.15+ kernels