Comment 25 for bug 278656

This has solved the same problem for me in Lucid.
Using a Leadtek Winfast PxDVR3200H which uses the Xceive tuner and thus requires the xc3028 firmware.
Here is a snippet of dmesg where you can see the connexant cx23885 fails when calling for the xc3028:
[87212.321168] xc2028 1-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v27.fw not found.
[87212.817558] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
[87212.821636] xc2028 1-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v27.fw not found.
[87213.826868] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
[87213.830955] xc2028 1-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v27.fw not found.
[87214.836756] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
[87214.840905] xc2028 1-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v27.fw not found.
[87215.332971] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
[87215.337075] xc2028 1-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v27.fw not found.
[87216.336833] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
[87216.341018] xc2028 1-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v27.fw not found.
[87217.356759] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
[87217.360650] xc2028 1-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v27.fw not found.
[87697.432050] cx23885 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting xc3028-v27.fw
[87697.436599] xc2028 1-0061: Loading 80 firmware images from xc3028-v27.fw, type: xc2028 firmware, ver 2.7
[87697.639143] xc2028 1-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE F8MHZ (3), id 0000000000000000.
[87698.810198] xc2028 1-0061: Loading firmware for type=D2633 DTV7 (90), id 0000000000000000.
[87698.824291] xc2028 1-0061: Loading SCODE for type=SCODE HAS_IF_5260 (60000000), id 0000000000000000.

You can see where the firmware was loaded after I installed this package and then my card started to work.
Thanks very much for resolving this bug.