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 """ an OpenSource driver is not in sight for that card. There are some NDA problems... I will see what I can do. """ 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, -- Alexandre CONRAD _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
