SkyStar 2 - rev 2.8A
Hi,
we just bought around 70 SkyStar2 PCI cards for deploying at our customer's sites meant for a digital signage application. We've always been working with these cards before which have always worked flawlessly under linux.
Anyway, it turns out that after we have ordered more SkyStar 2 cards from our supplier, the "new" cards we have recieved this morning looked physically different from the previous generation we were using for a couple of years now. So I opened one and tested it in our system. It seems to be recognized by the kernel somehow, but after a few "i2c master_xfer failed" messages ending with a "no frontend driver found for this B2C2/FlexCop adapter" message in dmesg, the card doesn't work. On the circuit board, it says REV 2.8A. I took a card that worked fine before, it's says REV 2.6D.
After searching over the linux-dvb mailing list, I ran across the following post from Patrick Boettcher regarding the REV 2.8A card:
http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-February/023866.html
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an OpenSource driver is not in sight for that card. There are some NDA problems... I will see what I can do.
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Of course, that's puts us in a very uncomfortable situation with our client.
The message is from last febuary. I'm posting a message here to ask the dvb experts if anything has changed since then.
Thanks for your help, pointers and suggestions.
Best regards,
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Hi,
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The message is from last febuary. I'm posting a message here to ask the dvb experts if anything has changed since then.
No. Well, yes. Technisat will release a binary driver. My last status is that:
http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-May/026179.html
All I can add is: post a request to Technisat.
best regards,
Patrick.
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Hello Patrick,
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The message is from last febuary. I'm posting a message here to ask the dvb experts if anything has changed since then.
No. Well, yes. Technisat will release a binary driver. My last status is that:
http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-May/026179.html
All I can add is: post a request to Technisat.
So you seem to have working drivers for REV 2.8. Which would save my life. :) Although, you can't make them public...
So I suppose you are working for TechniSat or you have tight relations with them? I will contact TechniSat here:
http://www.technisat.com/index5cdb.html?nav=Contact_Hotline,en,34
Alternativly, would you have any recommendations on who to contact directly for better impact (maybe off-list)? We're really under big pressure and the situation is very urgent/critical to us according to our deployment planning.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
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Hi,
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So you seem to have working drivers for REV 2.8. Which would save my life. :) Although, you can't make them public...
That's the problem. You can say thanks to Conexant (NXP, Philips ?). Technisat is trying hard (and the LinuxTV people as well) to convince the people involved...., without success so far.
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So I suppose you are working for TechniSat or you have tight relations with them?
No, my relation is not so tight. I'm just an individual is writing some Linux-drivers for things I want to use.
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I will contact TechniSat here:
http://www.technisat.com/index5cdb.html?nav=Contact_Hotline,en,34
Alternativly, would you have any recommendations on who to contact directly for better impact (maybe off-list)?
No, not at all. On the contrary I heard that the support of Technisat was not really aware ( 3 weeks ago ), that they are going to release the linux-driver this time.
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We're really under big pressure and the situation is very urgent/critical to us according to our deployment planning.
I'm sorry to hear that, but in that case maybe you need to switch your supplier.
regards,
Patrick.
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In the worst of the cases, I'll have to return the cards to my vendor as TechniSat might just no longer make 2.6 cards anymore. Then what would be the recommanded alternative hardware that could work for me? A few years back, I've was using a budget Hauppauge Nova-S card. But it might be outdated and/or hard to find in large quantities these days.
Any recommendation for cards that would be well supported by the kernel and are still "comfortably" available? We're doing DVB-IP stuff (no TV watching).
Regards,
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Hello Patrick,
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The message is from last febuary. I'm posting a message here to ask the dvb experts if anything has changed since then.
No. Well, yes. Technisat will release a binary driver. My last status is that:
http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-May/026179.html
All I can add is: post a request to Technisat.
So you seem to have working drivers for REV 2.8. Which would save my life. :) Although, you can't make them public...
So I suppose you are working for TechniSat or you have tight relations with them? I will contact TechniSat here:
http://www.technisat.com/index5cdb.html?nav=Contact_Hotline,en,34
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Alternativly, would you have any recommendations on who to contact directly for better impact (maybe off-list)? We're really under big pressure and the situation is very urgent/critical to us according to our deployment planning.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
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Good morning,
I've seen this card and it seems to be supported by the DVB linux kernel. Any experience with this card?
For reminder, that would be a replacement card for the SkyStar2 2.8A we have recieved and which doesn't work under linux (yet).
Regards,
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A message that is not in the archive (sent off-list or not yet received): [email protected]
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I've seen this card and it seems to be supported by the DVB linux kernel. Any experience with this card?
http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p179_Technotrend-Budget-PCI-CI
--for-Budget-Nova-Serie---V-1-0A.htmlFor reminder, that would be a replacement card for the SkyStar2 2.8A we have recieved and which doesn't work under linux (yet).
I've been pointed out that this is a CI only - not a DVB card. :)
So I guess that would be the appropriate DVB card.
http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p53_Technotrend-Budget-S-1500-incl--remote.html
Regards,
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In the worst of the cases, I'll have to return the cards to my vendor as TechniSat might just no longer make 2.6 cards anymore. Then what would be the recommanded alternative hardware that could work for me? A few years back, I've was using a budget Hauppauge Nova-S card. But it might be outdated and/or hard to find in large quantities these days.
Any recommendation for cards that would be well supported by the kernel and are still "comfortably" available? We're doing DVB-IP stuff (no TV watching).
There are tons of well-supported cards. ;-)
For example: http://www.technotrend.com/2762/PRODUCTS_for_PC.html
- Budget DVB-S 1401 (w/o CI connector) --> driver: budget
- Budget DVB-S 1500 (with CI connector) --> driver: budget-ci (There is also an experimental driver for the DVB-S2 3200)
CU
Oliver
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