hi ..

please guys any one who made a budget twinhan pci card work at fc4 2.6.11-1 instruct me step by step how did he do it ..

i've read alot but couldn't make it work ! maybe i just need the right programs to start it ..

i can see it at the dmesg results

any help will be appreciated
coz i hate booting windows for this silly thing !

I think that your kernel needs the bttv driver enabled.

Look in the kernel source Documentation for the "bt8xx.txt" file.
It mentions twinhan pci cards.

You may want to also be interested in visiting the web-site www.linuxtv.org

The driver is included with your kernel source. Perhaps you need to recompile your kernel. I think that this is the website for this kernel module.
http://linux.bytesex.org/index.html

I wouldn't trust a kernel that old to work with a DVB card. Kernel support has improved a huge amount in this area. I'd advise downloading and compiling a new kernel. Here is a guide, with specific reference to the Twinhan card:

http://faq.planetsky.com/en/dvb/twinhan-lin.html

no the kernel moduls are okay ..

and i read the two manuals before but didn't understand what to do after configuring the kernel witch i donut have to do..

the problem in
http://faq.planetsky.com/en/dvb/twinhan-lin.html

that i couldn't edit the channels.conf

the dmesg part of the twinhan thing is


Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:04.0, irq: 7, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf5000000
bttv0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB [card=113], PCI subsystem ID is 1822:0001
bttv0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00d500ff [init]
bttv0: using tuner=4
bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0"
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:04.1, irq: 7, latency: 32, memory: 0xf5001000




how shall i configure it ?!as the channels.conf contains the following
PlanetSky:11170:h:0:27692:512:512:512


thanx

i have only one step to complete the whole thing ..

after using all the insstructions at the manual
http://faq.planetsky.com/en/dvb/twinhan-lin.html


i stopped at the last step witch i have to edit the scripts file ..

how to know the mac address for my card is it the
0000:02:04.0

in


ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7


and if i set the address to it i am getting the error
[raven@localhost ~]$ ./run_dvb.sh start
Inserting DVB modules into kernel
DVB Network Interface Manager
Version 1.1.0-TVF (Build Thu Mar 09 09:17:37 PM 2006)
Copyright (C) 2003, TV Files S.p.A

Device: /dev/dvb0.net0
Error: couldn't open device /dev/dvb0.net0: 2 No such file or directory
SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied
dvb0_0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFHWADDR: Operation not permitted
reading channels from file '/etc/channels.conf'
zapping to 1 'Twinhan-budget-Dvbcard':
sat 0, frequency = 11170 MHz H, symbolrate 27692000, vpid = 0x0200, apid = 0x0200
using '/dev/dvb0.frontend0' and '/dev/dvb0.demux0'
opening frontend failed: No such file or directory



any help ?

I think the last part of the planetsky tutorial may not be what you want. It seems to be talking about setting up a network link via satellite. Hence the IP address and MAC address, which are components of a network connection. Nothing to do with TV.

If you just want to watch TV from a ground-based digital transmitter, and you have a new enough kernel with all modules loaded, you should be able to just run the 'tzap <channel name>' command in a console and see if the card locks onto something. If you can get that far other applications should also work.

In this case you also need a channels.conf file for your transmitter. Not sure where you would get this. I found mine ready-made on a local web site. If it works in Windows maybe there is some way to get the information out of the Windows config file.

hi

and realy thanx for replyin ..

so i must be watching tv already !! i tried but couldn't //or at least at xine //
i have a channel.conf set at /etc/ as i get it with the script ..

can u teach me step by step how did u make yr card work ? and what is yr card type ?

coz it's realy hard that u know the drivers are installed and the moduls are loaded but there is a small thing that prevents u from watching !

thanx