[mythtvnz] TeVii S421

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:46:03 +1200, you wrote:

>Still no joy with my TeVii S421 DVB-S card. Anybody at all out there got one 
>running?

TeVii cards are likely to be supported directly in current kernels. My
S470 DVB-S2 PCIe card is.  All I need to add to a modern kernel is the
firmware file.  In my case, that is dvb-fe-ds3000.fw which needs to be
put in /lib/firmware.  I got that file from tevii_ds3000.tar.gz which
I downloaded from the tevii.com when I got the card.  That download no
longer appears to be there.

On the TeVii site, the S421 Linux driver URL points to
s2-liplianin-v37.  So it is possible you still need to install that
version of the V4L drivers to make it work if your kernel is an older
one.  But maybe all you need is the firmware files, which seem to be
available on that site too:

  https://bitbucket.org/liplianin/s2-liplianin-v37/downloads

So try installing all of those *.fw files to /lib/firmware and
rebooting, then see what happens.

You should test first with dvbtune.  Here is a little test file to
help you get all the parameters right (test-dvb.sh):

#!/bin/bash

# Transponder frequencies (Hz) for Freeview satellite
declare -a DVB_S_FREQS=(12456000 12483000)

# Adapter number of DVB-S / DVB-S2 card (change to your card no)
ADAPTER=3

# LNB frequency (Hz)
LNB_FREQ=10750000

# Symbol rate
SYMBOL_RATE=22500

# Transponder index to test
IDX=0

dvbtune -f $((${DVB_S_FREQS[$IDX]} - $LNB_FREQ)) -s $SYMBOL_RATE -p h
-c $ADAPTER -tone 0 -m

If that does not work, you will need to post a copy of the kern.log
file section for the latest boot so we can have a look at it.  You
could put it on pastebin.com.