[linux-dvb] How does my card send diseqc commands ?

[Andrew de Quincey]

On Sunday 19 November 2006 20:51, Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 08:17:01PM +0000, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > Gah, you're right, I misread the dmesg; they're the same. What if you
> > swap the two FF cards round? Does the first card then start failing
> > DISEQC?
>
> No, if I only keep the failling card, on every of my five PCI slots it
> fails, and the others cards always works.
>
> I have even done the " loesung 3: externer 5volt spannungsregler
> (izeman)" from http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/SpannungsMod on the
> failling card, and it don't seems to change anything at all.
>
> I don't know if the card has not enough power to send the diseqc command
> or ???

Ah ok, so its definitely that card... hmm.. does it looks physically the same 
as the working FF card? Has it ever worked ok?

I dont use FF cards myself, but I /have/ seen budget cards which suddenly stop 
working... nothing weird is seen in dmesg: tuning works fine. The card simply 
starts getting a really  bad signal. If you move the card about/change cables 
(even a completely different machine), it makes no difference. I'm not saying 
thats necessarily the case here, but just mentioning it.