Hello! As far as I know, CableStar 2 _officially_ is not supported yet by Linux. But there is a "modified dvb-kernel-snapshot" by Patrick Boettcher ( see http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-July/003215.html , http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/home/index.php?site=cable4pc ) that give a CableStar 2 support on the base of b2c2-flexcop driver. One month ago I got Linux-2.6.13-rc6 from kernel.org (Patrick Boettcher wrote that the driver should work with 2.6.9-2.6.11 though), then replaced Linux's drivers/media/dvb/b2c2 and drivers/media/dvb/frontends by ones from Patrick Boettcher's tarball and built the kernel. When I load b2c2-flexcop-pci module, following messages appear: flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter. flexcop-pci: card revision 2 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:01:02.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.5 DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device). b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:08:07:ee b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=127, ret==-121) b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed i2c_readbytes: i2c read error (addr 0a, err == -121) b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: found the stv0297 at i2c address: 0x1c DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0297 DVB-C)... b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Cable2PC/CableStar 2 DVB-C' at the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete I tried to receive TV, "czap" seems to work: status 1f | signal 00b4 | snr 0dfe | ber 000004d3 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ab | snr 0c2c | ber 0000052d | unc 0000060a | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ab | snr 0c17 | ber 0000052d | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0ccf | ber 0000052d | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ac | snr 0ec0 | ber 0000052d | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ac | snr 0c8d | ber 000002c5 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00a9 | snr 101e | ber 000002c5 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ab | snr 0c37 | ber 000002c5 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0c0d | ber 000002c5 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ab | snr 0ca6 | ber 00000325 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ac | snr 0c44 | ber 00000325 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0c36 | ber 00000325 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0c4d | ber 00000325 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00a9 | snr 0cb4 | ber 0000028e | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0cc0 | ber 0000028e | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0c6a | ber 0000028e | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0dd5 | ber 0000028e | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0baf | ber 000002da | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0ba0 | ber 000002da | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ab | snr 0e80 | ber 000002da | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0dc3 | ber 000002da | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00a9 | snr 0c6e | ber 000002c4 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00a9 | snr 0cd3 | ber 000002c4 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00a8 | snr 0d25 | ber 000002c4 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ab | snr 0ccd | ber 000002c4 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00ab | snr 0e4c | ber 00000327 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK status 1f | signal 00aa | snr 0d4e | ber 00000327 | unc 00000000 | FE_HAS_LOCK , but no data can be read via /dev/dvb/adapter0/: $ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 cat: /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0: No such device or address $ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/audio0 cat: /dev/dvb/adapter0/audio0: No such device or address All needed modules are loaded. Additional information from lspci -v -d 13d0:2103 0000:01:02.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 02) Subsystem: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 Memory at f8400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] I/O ports at d000 [size=32] When I used original drivers from Linux-2.6.13-rc6, I give similar messages: flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter. flexcop-pci: card revision 2 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:01:02.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.3 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1f.5 setting pid: 8191 1fff at index 0 'off' setting pid: 8191 1fff at index 1 'off' setting pid: 8191 1fff at index 2 'off' [skip] setting pid: 8191 1fff at index 37 'off' DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device). b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:08:07:ee b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=127, ret==-121) b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed i2c_readbytes: i2c read error (addr 0a, err == -121) b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed stv0297_readreg: readreg error (reg == 0x80, ret == -22) b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed mt312_read: ret == -121 b2c2-flexcop: no frontend driver found for this B2C2/FlexCop adapter , and even "czap" does not work, although the module seems to be loaded: using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' 42 TV5:778000000:INVERSION_AUTO:6875000:FEC_NONE:QAM_64:811:812:81 42 TV5: f 778000000, s 6875000, i 2, fec 0, qam 3, v 0x32b, a 0x32c ERROR: failed opening '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' (No such file or directory) linux-2.6.13-rc6/Documentation/dvb/README.flexcop states that - add support for CableStar (stv0297 Microtune 203x/ALPS) (almost done, incompatibilities with the Nexus-CA) , but I think it does not mean CableStar _2_ PCI (so named budget) cards. Unfortunally, Patrick Boettcher gives a tarball of sources, not *patch* to [mainstream] drivers. Perhaps some kernel's internal structures was changed in 2.6.12 ( some information can be found in ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.12 ) and the driver for CableStar 2 PCI is not compatible with 2.6.12+. Should I try to use Linux-2.6.11 or somebody know what I can to to enable CableStar 2 in 2.6.13? I'll appreciate any suggestion or link which helps me to realize better the current situation of supporting CableStar 2 PCI in Linux. -- qq~~~~\ [ ?? IP ??? ??????? ] / /\ \ [ inCTV News ] news://news1.inCTV.ru/ \ /_/ / \____/
