Problem DVB-S (skystar rev 2.8A)

[amirdj]

How to install driver for "skystar rev 2.8a" ?

ThX

[berte]

Hello,

You should to compling your kernel with this modules.

Device Drivers --->
Multimedia devices --->
--- Video For Linux
Digital Video Broadcasting Devices --->


* DVB For Linux
<*> Budget cards
<*> Budget cards with onboard CI connector
<*> Budget cards with analog video inputs
<*> AV7110 cards with Budget Patch
<*> Technisat/B2C2 FlexCopII(b) and FlexCopIII adapters
<*> Technisat/B2C2 Air/Sky/Cable2PC PCI


* Enable debug for the B2C2 FlexCop drivers
Customise DVB Frontends --->
<*> Conexant CX24110 based
<*> Philips TDA8044 or TDA8083 based
I2C support --->
<*> I2C device interface
I2C Algorithms --->
<*> I2C bit-banging interfaces
<*> I2C PCF 8584 interfaces
<*> I2C PCA 9564 interfaces


Than you should to access your user for video group and emerge your favorite dvbs program(kaffeine,mytv,etc.)

Regards.
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[berte]

Hello again,

My first reply is valid for ONLY revision 2.6 if you want for revision 2.7+ you should follow this steps:

1- emerge "media-tv/v4l-dvb-hg"

2- wget http://www.bbti.us/download/linux/TechniSat_SkyStar2-PCI_r2.8_080709.tar.bz2

3- tar xfj TechniSat_SkyStar2-PCI_r2.8_080709.tar.bz2

4- cp skystar2-rev2.8-v4l-dvb-files-2008-07-09/skystar2-rev2.8-v4l-dvb.patch v4l-dvb/

5a- if you use 32bit
cp skystar2-rev2.8-v4l-dvb-files-2008-07-09/cx24113_blob.o.i386 v4l-dvb/v4l/cx24113_blob.o_shipped

5b- if you use 64bit
cp skystar2-rev2.8-v4l-dvb-files-2008-07-09/cx24113_blob.o.x86-64 v4l-dvb/v4l/cx24113_blob.o_shipped

6- cd v4l-dvb and patch -p1 < skystar2-rev2.8-v4l-dvb.patch

7- make && make install

8- may be you should reboot your machine.

Regards.
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