Hi there, i just bought a TechniSat Skystar2 TV PCI DVB-S card because it seems to be well supported under Linux. Unfortunately, i can't use the card under Linux. I use Debian Sarge, Kernel 2.6.11.11p3 on my PC. As soon as try to set the channel (using szap) i get an error message, that the frontend could not be accessed. The exact error message from szap is: ./szap -c /home/repplix/pub/channels.conf -n 1 reading channels from file '/home/repplix/pub/channels.conf' zapping to 1 'Sat.1': sat 0, frequency = 12480 MHz V, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x06ff, apid = 0x0700 using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' opening frontend failed: No such file or directory If i enter lsmod, it seems that all required modules can be loaded: skystar2 28356 0 dvb_core 78536 1 skystar2 mt352 5636 1 skystar2 stv0299 9924 1 skystar2 nxt2002 8900 1 skystar2 mt312 7876 1 skystar2 But if i start 'dmsg' i found the following error messages: kernel: drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: FlexCopIIB(rev.195) chip found kernel: drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: the chip has 38 hardware filters kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (SkyStar2). kernel: i2c_readbytes: i2c read error (addr 0a, err == -121) kernel: skystar2: A frontend driver was not found for device 13d0/2103 subsystem 13d0/2103 I found a discussion about a similar problem on this list http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2004/12-2004/msg00307.html and http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2004/12-2004/msg00602.html Here, the solution was to install a patch for kernel 2.6.10. Since i use 2.6.11 this patch should already be included in this kernel version. It would be great if somebody can send me suggestions how to solve this problem. Best regards Michael Repplinger
