[linux-dvb] Re: Skystar2 problem with traffic filtering

[Niklas Peinecke <n.peinecke@web.de>]

Eugene Kolomeetz wrote:
> Niklas Peinecke wrote:
>
> > Eugene Kolomeetz wrote:
> >
> > > I've tried to use Skystar2 (rev 2.6) for satellite internet with 
> > > drivers 1.1.1
> > > It works fine for some time, then traffic stops - no pings come 
> > > backs, tcpdump also shows nothing.
> > > femon shown that frontend is locked.
> > > Reloading modules helps, but the same thing happens after a while.
> > > Is it a known problem?
> > > How can it be tracked down?
> >
> >
> > Try loading dvb-core.o with dvb_shutdown_timeout=0 to prevent the 
> > driver from going into sleep-mode.
> >
> > Niklas
> It's not the case, I've already specified this parameter and  femon 
> shows FE_HAS_LOCK all the time.
> And this problem may occur after 30 seconds, and may occur after 2000 
> seconds - the period is random.
> I guess that something is wrong with MPE filtering code.
> Maybe section dump may help? I have a part of it just before the traffic 
> stops.
Could you possibly try if watching tv (i.e. with mplayer) works for you? 
The skystar2 driver uses hardware pid-filters but software section 
filters (provided by dvb-core); if tv is fine the error is probably 
located above the skystar2 driver.

Niklas



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