Hi, I played a bit with sourcecode and kernel. the technisat skystar usb plus now works fine! if there's anybody who needs help... just contact me. This is what dmesg now shows :D dvb-usb: found a 'TechnoTrend AG' in warm state. dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer. DVB: registering new adapter (TechnoTrend AG) DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10086 DVB-S)... dvb-usb: TechnoTrend AG successfully initialized and connected. Best regards benjamin Benjamin Behringer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm very new to linux-dvb. I just bought blinded by salesman a TechniSat > SkyStar USB plus and would like to know how I can get this DVB-S > receiver working. > > I already figured out that it's a TechnoTrend S-2400 originally and I > also found a patch posted by Andre Weidemann. > > Here's the patch: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-dvb/msg23611.html > > I've downloaded from http://ilpss8.dyndns.org/DVB-driver/v4l-dvb/ the > latest version of v4l-dvb and patched it. > > But there are still some Question: > - Where to place the firmware mentioned in his thread? > - Which module(s) must be loaded after installing? > - And finally how to get the device working? > > Please note that I'm completely new to this and I didn't used DVB-S before. > Could please also send me some tutorials which I should read after > installing the hardware successfully? > > Many thanks in advance!!! > > Benjamin > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb