TeVii S470

TeVii S470 Card

A DVB-S2 PCIe card from TeVii Technology Ltd

Overview/Features

• PCIe x1

Components Used

• RF tuner: Montage: M88TS202
• demod: Montage: M88DS3000
• pci-e bridge: Conexant cx23885

Identification

PCI id: [d470:9022]

Kernel 2.6.35

The drivers are included (since 2.6.33, see below) If you need the latest liplianin driver, be carefull with this kernel, you need a patch to compile the driver (july 2010, maybe liplianin will improve its driver) patch

Kernel 2.6.33 and newer

Those kernels have in-build drivers.

Download and install firmware

wget -c http://tevii.com/tevii_ds3000.tar.gz
tar xfv tevii_ds3000.tar.gz
sudo cp tevii_ds3000/dvb-fe-ds3000.fw /lib/firmware/

Thats it, your card should be working now. If you configure your own kernel, be sure to enable

Device Drivers  --->
 Multimedia support  --->
  <*>   Video For Linux 
  <*>   DVB for Linux
  [*]   Load and attach frontend and tuner driver modules as needed
  [*]   Video capture adapters  --->
    [*]   Autoselect pertinent encoders/decoders and other helper chips
    <M>   Conexant cx23885 (2388x successor) support

Older kernels

tested on debian 2.6.30 and 2.6.32 kernel

You can use this script to download and compile firmware/driver

  echo "TeVii S470"                                                                  
       # checking firmware
       if [ ! -f /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-ds3000.fw ]; then
           wget -c http://tevii.com/tevii_ds3000.tar.gz
           tar zxfv tevii_ds3000.tar.gz
           sudo cp tevii_ds3000/dvb-fe-ds3000.fw /lib/firmware/
           rm -rf tevii_ds3000
       fi
       # checking driver
       if [ -d "s2-liplianin" ]; then
           cd "s2-liplianin"
           make distclean
           make update
       else
           hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin
           cd "s2-liplianin"
       fi
       make
       sudo make install
       sudo depmod
       sudo make rmmod
       sudo modprobe cx23885
       sleep 1
       ls -R /dev/dvb/

(thanks to ticapix)

TODO:

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