Patrick Boettcher wrote:
They are not just related, they are identical. Technisat only builds the devices and sells them in Europe (and elsewhere), the development was done by B2C2.On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, max jacob wrote:hallo, i did not manage to install a b2c2 usb modem on my system, nor did i really understand if it is supposed to be supported.... if yes, ok, i'll be trying for a while more to see wat's wrong. if no, is there something i can do in order to help supporting it? m.I could be totally wrong, but it seems that the b2c2 products: Sky2PC, Cable4PC, Air2PC-DVB, are somehow related to the technisat usb devices SkyStar USB, CableStar USB, CableStar USB. In specs I read that both device have 39 pidfilter (don't know if it applies to pci _and_ usb devices). I know that having the same number of pidfilters it not an evidence for relation, but it could be an indication.
Identical driver. The whole software is done by BBTI, which is a branch-off of the B2C2 technical dept.Furthermore the windows driver packages show a lot similarities. Especially the driver setup folder. :)
At b2c2's I found a Linux SDK which included binary drivers, but only for <= 2.4.20. Maybe one could start with it. At least the reverse engineering would be easy, as long you could send small commands (e.g. just set the HP FEC).
Disassembling is easy, the driver code is very structured.
Last time I asked them B2C2 (and BBTI) refused to give out the specs. Nevertheless there are sometimes people around here who know details. Just search the list, most knowledge has been posted while developing the hardware filters support for the skystar2.Does someone is working on a driver for the Technisat/B2C2 USB devices? Or does someone has made contact to technisat/B2c2 and asked for technical support or specs or if they are interested making their driver open source?