LinuxQuestions.org - Has Anybody Installed A Working Skystar2 ?how?

Thanks for your help and sorry for double posting

I surfed many many pages to know about how to install the skystar2 DVB
> card but everything that I tried didn't work. I hope you be able to
> help me in this stuff
>
> I got the latest stable kernel (2.6.10) and compiled it (surely with
> support of skystar2 as module) and booted up with new kernel now what
> should I do to view the satellite channels?
>
> Below are my lsmod and dmesg results that shows the skystar2 modules
> are loaded but I don't have any dvb directory in /dev/ only some of
> the files (dvb dvb0.demux0
> dvb0.dvr0
> dvb0.frondend0
> dvb0.net0)
> that begin with dvb.
>
> lsmod)
> Module Size Used by
> radeon 138500 2
> parport_pc 29636 1
> lp 13164 0
> parport 41928 2 parport_pc,lp
> autofs4 28164 0
> sunrpc 182244 1
> ipt_REJECT 7552 1
> ipt_state 2176 5
> ip_conntrack 45236 1 ipt_state
> iptable_filter 3968 1
> ip_tables 18304 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
> vfat 14080 3
> fat 45728 1 vfat
> video 16132 0
> button 6928 0
> battery 9604 0
> ac 5124 0
> md5 4608 1
> ipv6 272960 8
> joydev 10432 0
> uhci_hcd 36112 0
> ehci_hcd 41604 0
> i2c_i801 8844 0
> snd_intel8x0 36640 2
> snd_ac97_codec 76000 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss 55588 0
> snd_mixer_oss 19840 2 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 110728 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 34692 1 snd_pcm
> snd 60260 8
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore 11360 2 snd
> snd_page_alloc 10372 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> skystar2 30980 0
> dvb_core 95400 1 skystar2
> mt352 6148 1 skystar2
> stv0299 10500 1 skystar2
> mt312 8196 1 skystar2
> i2c_core 23040 5 i2c_i801,skystar2,mt352,stv0299,mt312
> floppy 66736 0
> dm_snapshot 18628 0
> dm_zero 2432 0
> dm_mirror 26604 2
> ext3 134280 2
> jbd 86808 1 ext3
> dm_mod 63508 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
> ata_piix 8964 5
> libata 47748 1 ata_piix
> sd_mod 18944 6
> scsi_mod 136192 2 libata,sd_mod
>>lsmod (8524) returned '0'
>
>
>
> dmesg
> Linux version 2.6.10 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.2
> 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Fri Mar 11 10:03:00 IRST 2005
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> 0MB HIGHMEM available.
> 511MB LOWMEM available.
> On node 0 totalpages: 131056
> DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
> Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
> HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> DMI 2.2 present.
> ACPI: RSDP (v000 IntelR ) @ 0x000f6be0
> ACPI: RSDT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @
> 0x1fff3000
> ACPI: FADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @
> 0x1fff3040
> ACPI: MADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @
> 0x1fff7140
> ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTELR AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @
> 0x00000000
> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
> Built 1 zonelists
> Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
> Detected 2793.474 MHz processor.
> Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Memory: 513940k/524224k available (2506k kernel code, 9672k reserved,
> 642k data, 184k init, 0k highmem)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
> Ok.
> Calibrating delay loop... 5537.79 BogoMIPS (lpj=2768896)
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
> SELinux: Initializing.
> SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
> selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
> Capability LSM initialized as secondary
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> monitor/mwait feature present.
> using mwait in idle threads.
> CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
> CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 03
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e28)
> checking if image is initramfs... it is
> Freeing initrd memory: 1066k freed
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb250, last bus=2
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
> ACPI: Subsystem revision 20041105
> ACPI: Interpreter enabled
> ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
> ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.2
> PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0,
> disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0,
> disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> pnp: PnP ACPI init
> pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
> ** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
> ** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
> ** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
> ** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
> ** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
> ** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
> ** so I can fix the driver.
> pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
> apm: overridden by ACPI.
> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> audit(1110593183.985:0): initialized
> Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
> ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
> ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (52 C)
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
> Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
> agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
> divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hdc: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: ASUS CD-S400/A4, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> Probing IDE interface ide2...
> ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
> Probing IDE interface ide3...
> ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
> Probing IDE interface ide4...
> ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
> Probing IDE interface ide5...
> ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
> elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
> input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 32Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 9362)
> Initializing IPsec netlink socket
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> ACPI wakeup devices:
> SLPB PCI0 HUB0 UAR1 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 USBE MODM
> ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> libata version 1.10 loaded.
> ata_piix version 1.03
> ata_piix: combined mode detected
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
> PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14
> ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c68 86:3a01 87:4003
> 88:207f
> ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 160086528 sectors:
> ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> scsi0 : ata_piix
> Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Rev: YAR5
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > sda3 sda4
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
> cdrom: open failed.
> cdrom: open failed.
> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> security: 3 users, 4 roles, 280 types, 16 bools
> security: 53 classes, 5494 rules
> SELinux: Completing initialization.
> SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
> SELinux: initialized (dev dm-0, type ext3), uses xattr
> SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
> SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses
> genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), not configured for
> labeling
> SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), not configured for
> labeling
> SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
> SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses
> genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
> SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
> SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
> SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
> inserting floppy driver for 2.6.10
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10
> PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
> drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: FlexCopII(rev.130) chip found
> drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: the chip has 6 hardware filters
> DVB: registering new adapter (SkyStar2).
> DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 3
> PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
> intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49909 usecs
> intel8x0: clocking to 48000
> hw_random: RNG not detected
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 11
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
> ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem 0xfa100000
> ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
> ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 26 Oct
> 2004
> hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
> USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 5
> PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 5, io base 0xbc00
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
> hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9
> PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 9, io base 0xb000
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
> hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
> usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0xb400
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
> hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 5, io base 0xb800
> uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
> input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [KYE PowerScroll EYE] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
> hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
> NET: Registered protocol family 10
> Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03db0c0(lo)
> IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
> ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
> ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
> ibm_acpi: ec object not found
> EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
> cdrom: open failed.
> cdrom: open failed.
> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> SELinux: initialized (dev sda3, type ext3), uses xattr
> SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
> SELinux: initialized (dev sda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev sda5, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
> SELinux: initialized (dev sda6, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
> Adding 1048568k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1
> SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses
> genfs_contexts
> parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
> parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> Trying to free free DMA3
> pnp: Device 00:07 disabled.
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 356 bytes per
> conntrack
> SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses
> genfs_contexts
> parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
> pnp: Device 00:07 activated.
> parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
> lp0: console ready
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> [drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0:
> agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
> agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
> [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
>>dmesg (8550) returned '0'
>