Hotplug

You need to install hotplug scripts. They are in this case needed to download the firmware from /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware to the DEC2000-t.

The hotplug package from the stable distribution does not include a /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script. You therefore have to download them from sourceforge:

wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2004_01_05.tar.gz
tar -xzf hotplug-2004_01_05.tar.gz
cd hotplug-2004_01_05

and as root:

make install
apt-get install dvb-mpegtools
/etc/init.d/hotplug start
ln -s /etc/init.d/hotplug /etc/rc2.d/S11hotplug
ln -s /etc/init.d/hotplug /etc/rc3.d/S11hotplug

If you are not running stable, try using the excellent apt-get as root:

apt-get install hotplug dvb-mpegtools
/etc/init.d/hotplug start

and you are done. Check that /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent exists before continuing, though.