[linux-dvb] Re: No frontend device with Skystar2 and Kernel 2.6.0

[Nico <nsabbi@tiscali.it>]

Thomas Schoen wrote:

> Hi,
> i am trying to get my Skystar2 DVB-S card working with a Kernel 
> 2.6.0-test5-10-default (which i have got from SUSE ftp-server).  I 
> have configured the Kernel to create the dvb-core and skystar2 modules 
> and they seem to load without errors.
> But i cannot access the frontend0 device from any application (open 
> fails, telling there is no such device), it works fine for demux0 and 
> dvr0 !
>
> I have turned on debugging and what i can see is, that the module 
> registers a demux0, a dvr0 and a net0 device, but no frontend0. I can 
> also see that it calls the "dvb_add_frontend_ioctls()" to register 
> the  appropriate  set  of functions.
>
> I have read a couple of the postings in this mailing list, but i 
> didn't find one that matched my problem so far.
>
> Does anyone can give advice on my problem ?
>
> Thanks
> Thomas
you didn't load the frontend driver: modprobe stv0299 for a 2.6[BC] or 
modprobe mt312 for a 2.3.
Anyway you had better use 2.6.1: it includes precious patches to  mt312.c


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