[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-bt8xx and net device

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Hi André,

I checked the code with the Nova-S card today and it worked fine for me 
(well - at least after fixing the mentioned bug;). I don't have a SkyDSL 
account so I only checked if there was traffic in promiscous mode. Using 
dvbtune should work as well but I used the following command sequence:

[first generate a up-to-date channellist using scan]
$ DVB/apps/scan > /tmp/channellist

[then tune to a test transponder]
$ DVB/apps/szap "NS DSL Proxy 1" -c /tmp/channelist

[set up the DVB network interface on PID 0x511 and set a dummy IP adress]
$ DVB/apps/dvbnet/dvbnet -p 0x511
$ /sbin/ifconfig dvb0_0 10.1.1.1

[due to a bug/feature in iptraf we have to enable promiscous mode manually]
$ /sbin/ifconfig dvb0_0 promisc

[now check for traffic using iptraf]
$ iptraf

Since for bt8xx based cards the MAC is not read from EEPROM you have to 
set it manually there. I must admit that I have not tested this, maybe 
the bug is located exactly here. You might want to test if the crash 
still occurs if you configure the mac manually by filling the 
adapter->proposed_mac field before registering the net device and then 
not reconfigure the MAC afterwards...

In any case the driver should never ever oops so I'd be very happy if 
you can help investigating this further.
thanks for all your patience,

Holger



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