Comment 6 for bug 1291459

I see the same firmware loading issue. I assumed the problem was in tuner_xc2028, as I don't see any related messages in dmesg after the firmware blob fails to load:

Mar 26 22:03:20 localhost kernel: [ 11.567369] xc2028 0-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE F8MHZ (3), id 0000000000000
000.
Mar 26 22:03:20 localhost kernel: [ 11.576247] cxusb: i2c wr: len=64 is too big!
Mar 26 22:03:20 localhost kernel: [ 11.576247]
Mar 26 22:03:20 localhost kernel: [ 11.576253] xc2028 0-0061: i2c output error: rc = -95 (should be 64)
Mar 26 22:03:20 localhost kernel: [ 11.576255] xc2028 0-0061: -95 returned from send
Mar 26 22:03:20 localhost kernel: [ 11.576258] xc2028 0-0061: Error -22 while loading base firmware
Mar 26 22:03:20 localhost kernel: [ 11.648380] xc2028 0-0061: Loading firmware for type=BASE F8MHZ (3), id 0000000000000000.

This is from the linux-image-generic-lts-saucy v3.11.0.18.17 running on a Precise LTS system (amd64).
cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS"

At the risk of starting a wild goose chase this _might_ be related to:
  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e9812be28ce0f4e4bf5586f1a542551c8fc80ffa
which has been merged into the saucy kernel, as far as I can tell,
  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-saucy.git;a=commit;h=d1ba3eb8a51b2ebb09bdfd7277fde2c8ff679f87