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[linux-dvb] Please HELP !!! (Internet via SkyStar II PCI, and EON)
Hello guys,
I am really sorry this post is going to be little
larger, but I will try to give
as more technical details as I can, in hope that
someone will find good and patient
to read all this, and help me, I hope. I would be
really really, thankful.
The main goal, is to setup linux server,
dial-on-demand isdn gateway (it's simple, I
already had expirience with it, and it's all done,
working nice), which will use satelite
proxy.
SAT Provider, has to be EON.
Since configuring squid as a proxy warper shouldn't
be a problem, the first goal I want to reach,
is to setup machine so I could use sat proxy from
mozilla in X.
Computer has TechniSat SkyStar II PCI card.
The question is,
What I exactly need to make my internet connection
work with it ?
I guess, but I am not sure, the answer would be :
1. Skystar driver properly installed.
2. dvb0_0 interface configured (with net_start.sh and
updated mac address)
3. dvbd
Many HOWTOs I saw, says "official dvbd can be found
at linuxtv.org". I couldn't
find it, so I am wondering if all necessary stuff to
make it works is included
in linuxtv-1.0.1.tgz or I have to find dvbd
somewhere, since I couldn't find it
on linuxtv.org. I compiled some dvbd3 I found
somewhere, but it simply reports
nothing, like it's just exit(0) in the main(); I also
tried dvbd2 I found,
still nothing, ps aux, no dvbd there.
So, I hope someone will answer this. (what I exactly
need).
Here is the situation I have now on my machine :
- Slackware Linux 9.0, kernel 2.4.22 (with and
without devfsd)
- Installed linuxtv-dvb-1.0.1, with automatic module
loading on startup.
- I created /dev/ using makedev.napi, and put
devfd.conf and modules.conf to proper place.
To be sure about the SkyStar II, here it is the
output of the lspci -v :
02:09.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co
Ltd B2C2 Sky2PC PCI [SkyStar2] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2
Sky2PC PCI [SkyStar2]
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64,
IRQ 11
Memory at feae0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=64K]
I/O ports at df80 [size=32]
Now, let's check out what happens when I boot machine
:
-- part of dmesg --
Technisat SkyStar2 driver loading
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:09.0
skystar2.c: FlexCopII(rev.130) chip found
skystar2.c: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:01:46:6d:00:00
skystar2.c: key =
b2 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
DVB: registering new adapter (Techsan Electronics Co
Ltd B2C2 Sky2PC PCI [SkyStar2]).
--------------------
Well, it looks like it worked.
Next, what I try to do, is run net_start.sh from
linux-dvb-1.0.1/apps/
here is the output :
DVB Network Interface Manager
Version 1.1.0-TVF (Build Tue Nov 04 02:19:17 2003)
Copyright (C) 2003, TV Files S.p.A
Device: /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0
Status: device dvb0_0 for pid 1297 created
successfully.
Looks like it worked. To not paste ifconfig output
twice, what I will tell you is,
that MAC address of the dvb0_0 interface is all 0. So
I created another, net_start2.sh,
and run it, to put proper MAC address of the
card, and here is the result (ifconfig):
dvb0_0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
00:D0:D7:01:46:6D
inet addr:10.1.1.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255
Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST
MTU:4096 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Base address:0x511
Looks like it worked.
Now, the problem is, that I don't know what should be
my next step ?
I guess, to run dvbd with proper dvbd.conf, but any
dvbd I found doesn't work.
(Yes, I was able to compile it without warnings but
it doesn't work).
Then, I just wanted to check if can watch sat TV, so
I took ASTRA conf file,
and copied it to ~/.szap/ and run szap :
root@gateway:/usr/local/src/sat/linuxtv-dvb-1.0.1/apps/szap#
./szap -n 030
reading channels from file
'/root/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 'RTL':
sat 0, frequency = 10872 MHz V, symbolrate 27500000,
vpid = 0x0000, apid = 0x0c3f
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and
'/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
opening frontend failed: No such device
lsmod
skystar2 22536 0 (unused)
mt312 6440 0
dvb-core 43620 3 [skystar2 mt312]
3c2000 125924 0 (unused)
What is also confusing, is, that, for example, I have
3c2000 3com, gigabit network card.
as you see from lsmod, I have it as module. when I
run ifconfig and bring up interface,
lsmod, says in the third field, number 1 (used by 1).
When I bring dvb0_0 interface,
with net_start.sh, it still says 0 (unused), for
skystar2 module ... hm ... I am
wondering if I really set it up well, as it looks
from dmesg.
Well, that's it.
I hope you will be able to help me.
To order questions again :
1. What exactly do I need (which packages), to make
Internet connection work (with EON) ?
2. Since, it looks that net0 device works, according
to net_start.sh, do I need to setup
these missing frontend0 and demux0 devices ? (
(It would be also great if you could tell
me, why they are not recognized. (I also tried
make insmod, put all modules, and still
didn't work). Devices exists in /dev/ for sure.
3. If I everything did well, what sould be my next
step ?
Please post as may advices as you have.
regards,
Mr. freelance :-D
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