Technisat DVB-S PCI card

[Milan Obuch]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:25:55 +0200 (CEST)
Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:

> In article <20130920142848.17218ac0 at zeta.dino.sk> you write:
> >Hi,
> Hi!
> >
> >as part of larger work we gained new cables with both DVB-S and DVB-T
> >signal. I already know a bit about DVB-T, I can receive streams with
> >ITE Technologies, Inc. DVB-T TV Stick and VDR (with help from this
> >list, remote is not yet functional, but this is discussed in another
> >thread).
> >
> >Now I got some older DVB-S card for free and would like to try it.
> >From 'pciconf -lv' I got (slightly reformatted to avoid wrap issues)
> >
> >none0 at pci0:1:0:0:
> >class=0x028000 card=0x210313d0 chip=0x210313d0 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> >  vendor  = 'Techsan Electronics Co Ltd'
> >  device  = 'B2C2 Sky2PC Core Chip sky star 2 <technisat> (T228502)'
> >  class   = network
> >
> >With some browsing I was able to find page at
> >http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_SkyStar_2_TV_PCI_/_Sky2PC_PCI
> >stating it work quite well under Linux. Has anyboady some experience
> >with it under FreeBSD? Is driver already ported or nothing is done,
> >yet? In general, how does PCI card usage differ from USB device,
> >working with webcamd?
> >
>  webcamd only works for usb hardware, running Linux pci drivers in
> userland would require at least iommu/vt-d hardware and of course
> new code, if it makes sense at all.  So you'll have more luck using
> an usb dvb-s(2) tuner like one I use:
> 
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Technisat_SkyStar_USB_HD
> 
>  (Yes there also is multimedia/cx88 for some cx88-based pci(e)
> tuners but it only supports dvb-t and atsc, not dvb-s.)
> 

So I am out of luck with this card, it seems... Also, I got one more
card, 'pciconf -lv' tells following about:

none0 at pci0:1:0:0:
class=0x048000 card=0x000013c2 chip=0x71461131 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Animation Technologies Inc'
 device = 'PCIVEN_1131&DEV_7130&SUBSYS_D1091461&REV_013&61AAA01&0&60 (saa7146)'
 class  = multimedia

I found older thread on hackers mailing list in 2006 where someone
mentioned writing driver for saa7146 based cards, but nothing
materialized, so using this one under FreeBSD is not possible either...
so I need something USB based for DVB-S too... OK.

Regards,
Milan