TeVii S464

A DVB-S/S2 PCI card from TeVii.

TeVii S464

Hardware/Features

• PCI low profile

Retail packaging includes full-height and low profile brackets, an IR receiver cable and an IR handset.

Components Used

• RF Tuner: Montage M88TS2020
• Demodulator (twice): Montage M88DS3000
• PCI bridge: Conexant CX23880

Identification

lspci -wn

01:06.0 0400: 14f1:8800 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: d464:9022
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at e7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
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        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: cx8800
        Kernel modules: cx8800

01:06.2 0480: 14f1:8802 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: d464:9022
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: cx88-mpeg driver manager
        Kernel modules: cx8802

Linux support

Firmware

Firmware is required for this card and can be extracted from the TeVii driver package;

wget http://www.tevii.com/100315_Beta_linux_tevii_ds3000.rar
unrar e 100315_Beta_linux_tevii_ds3000.rar
cp fw/dvb-fe-cx24116.fw /lib/firmware

Drivers

As of March 2011, this card is supported by the V4L-DVB media_build tree and the driver has been merged into the 2.6.39 kernel.

Usage with MythTV

This card works great for recieving DVB-S and DVB-S2 channels from Astra/Eurobird 28.2E.

External Links

Manufacturers Website

Product Page at DVBshop.net (A European Retailer)