Hola, It's my first time writing to the list, but I've been reading for a while. I was wondering if anyone has purchased this $80 air2pc card off ebay and made it work successfully with mythtv. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5195966400&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
It's an older revision card, so it does not use the nxt2002 frontend described in all the nice air2pc+mythtv tutorials out there like http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/personal/angel/mythtv/air2pc-howto.html I believe it has Broadcom 3510 firmware from this post I read a while back, which I'm currently using the dvb-fe-bcm3510-01.fw firmware from dvb-kernel. > On 5/17/05, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5195966400&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW > > I went ahead and bought one. I'll let ya'll know how/if it works. I > emailed back and forth with the vendor who agreed to take it back and > refund me if it doesn't co-exist peacefully with my existing setup. > > > > Just wanted to follow this up. Vendor was extremely easy to work with, > > very knowlegable (you'll see why if you order one) and shipped one out > > the door quickyl. > > > > . Rev1 cards have a different "frontend" (Broadcom 3510) which has > > only been supported in the last 7-ish days. Once you get it compiled > > into the kernel, everything gets happy. > > > > Worth the money, imho. > > > > One Caveat, if you have signal strength problems now, you may not want > > to get one of these... they are a little weaker on the RCV side than > > the Gen2 cards. I have compiled a 2.6.11 redhat fc3 kernel, building the b2c2 and all the frontends as modules. (Note: I definitely do not see this frontend when running 'make menuconfig' during the kernel build.) I see the following in my /var/log/messages upon startup: Jul 18 19:07:48 goose kernel: drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: FlexCopIIB(rev.195) chip found Jul 18 19:07:48 goose kernel: drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/skystar2.c: the chip has 38 hardware filters Jul 18 19:07:48 goose kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (SkyStar2). Jul 18 19:07:48 goose kernel: i2c_readbytes: i2c read error (addr 0a, err == -121) Jul 18 19:07:48 goose kernel: mt312_read: ret == -121 Jul 18 19:07:48 goose kernel: skystar2: A frontend driver was not found for device 13d0/2103 subsystem 13d0/2103 I can't seem to get a hold of blammo (the author) to ask him questions though. Is the mt312 my frontend? Maybe I just need a newer kernel? If anyone can provide any pointers, I'd totally appreciate it. BTW, I love reading the list every day. The mythtv community is really strong. Thanks! -Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] My setup Fedora core 3 with 2.6.11 kernel (non-64 bit, to just get mythtv up and running before going 64) MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboard Athlon 64 3000 evga 6600 gt pvr-150 (didn't try to set this up yet) air2pc from ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5195966400&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
