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Amr Zenga
Asked: 2014-07-24 05:40:27 +0800 CST

How to install a Mantis dvb-s card?

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I am a newbie to ubuntu and I am trying to fix this along time ago now.
I am running 14.4 lts distro.

I tried to install all kinds of software that plays dvb card Azure wave Mantis
but it keep saying i don't have one.

after executing the command sudo lshw I got this output :

...
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801 PCI Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: e1
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
             resources: ioport:fdd00000(size=1048576)
           *-multimedia UNCLAIMED
                description: Multimedia controller
                product: Mantis DTV PCI Bridge Controller [Ver 1.0]
                vendor: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                version: 01
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: bus_master
                configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=255 mingnt=8
                resources: memory:fddff000-fddfffff

so please anyone tell me what to do to install the dvb-s card and use it?

dvb

2 Answers

  1. Having a look on LinuxTV site, I've found that:
    Note that I do not have a DVB-S card and that I ve not tested these 2 solutions below

    For a DVB-S PCI Cards

    From this source on linuxtv.org about DVB-S PCI Cards

    A linux driver which can be downloaded for the Mantis family from the Twinhan website (AZLinux_v1.4.2_CI_FC6). The mantis_vp1034 only has precompiled module binaries that are only suitable for the first FC6 kernel.

    Other drivers are available from http://jusst.de/manu/mantis-v4l-dvb.tar.bz2

    v4l-dvb v5 (s2api) drivers are avaliable from the mercurial repository at http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin

    For a Azurewave AD SP400 CI

    (reading all your different questions, I suppose it is the card you have):

    From this source on linuxtv.org about this card,
    - No firmware required.
    - Follow this to install the Driver:

    sudo apt-get install mercurial
hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb

    then 

    cd v4l-dvb/v4l
make
sudo make install
sudo reboot

    if compiling fails because of FiredTV just run:

    sudo make menuconfig

    before the make command and disable -> Multimedia Support -> DVB/ATSC Adapter -> Firedtv/Floppydtv

    Alternatively, try this driver:

    sudo apt-get install mercurial
hg clone http://jusst.de/hg/mantis-v4l
ln -s mantis-v4l s2   [the scan-s2 and szap-s2 Makefiles expect this]
cd mantis-v4l
make
sudo make install
sudo reboot
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  2. Unclaimed means there isn't a driver attached for that module and it will not work until one is installed.

    I don't have that specific hardware, however, some useful results turned up here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1539309.html

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