TechniSat SkyStar HD

A DVB-S2 PCI card by TechniSat. For the SkyStar HD2 please see the Azurewave AD-SP400 CI (Twinhan VP-1041).

Experimental support exists.

Overview

Apparently the card is actually a rebranded TechnoTrend TT-budget S2-3200. See that page for more details.

Components Used

• NXP/Philips SAA7146 (PCI bridge)
• STMicroelectronics STB6100 (tuner ... found under the tin can)
• STMicroelectronics STB0899 (a "C2L" revision) (demodulator)
• STMicroelectronics LNBP21 (LNB supply and control IC)

It also supports an add-on CI slot.

Identification

02:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Unknown device 1019
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
        Memory at feaffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]

# lspci -v -n -s 02:06.0
02:06.0 0480: 1131:7146 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: 13c2:1019
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
        Memory at feaffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]

output from lspci -vvv

01:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Unknown device 1019
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (3750ns min, 9500ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at e9cffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)[size=512]

Drivers

See TechnoTrend TT-budget S2-3200.

Modules

With current drivers the required modules should all load correctly on boot.

modprobe stb0899 stb6100 saa7146 lnbp21
modprobe budget-ci

If you don't load the other modules first, you'll get

DVB: Unable to find symbol stb6100_attach()

As with all DVB drivers, if you don't see any cards and frontends in multiproto's menuconfig, enable I2C in your kernel config and in multiproto do make distclean afterwards.

External Links

• TechniSat product page
• TechnoTrend product page