[plug] wanted - 2nd hand Skymedia 200D DVB card

[Onno Benschop]

Steve Boak wrote:

>Hi everyone
>
>It's now into the third week of trying to get a satellite link working with 
>BorderNet :-( I know they have had issues with taking over all of Westnet's 
>satellite customers, but even a used car salesman provides better phone 
>support! Fortunately I have managed to contact one of their techs through 
>Whirlpool, and he has been enormously helpful working through issues with the 
>different receiver cards.
>
>I have been through the hoops with different hardware to work with Debian 
>stable - both PentaValue and Broadlogics card (binary) drivers have issues, 
>but source for the SkyMedia card driver is available so hopefully that will 
>work (when I get it to compile :-)
>
>Only trouble is, I don't have a SkyMedia 200D card! Does anyone know either a 
>local supplier or happen to have one lying around after switching to ADSL 
>which they would be prepared to sell? I missed out on one on ebay yesterday, 
>I got outbid (outbidded?) at the last minute.
>  
>
I'm surprised to hear of your negative experience with their telephone 
support, I've had nothing but great service. Last week I finished 
setting up a gateway box using a 2.4.27 kernel, a SkyMedia card, 
tellique, ppp and a bridging router to link Ethernet and wireless - I 
get to install it next week - we'll see how well it really works :-)

As for getting a card, BorderNet should be able to help you there, 
seeing that the card is a pretty common occurrence on a 1-way satellite 
link.

There are many gotcha's on the way to success, it took me about three 
days and I'm still to be convinced that this wireless card actually 
works, but with a few recompiles it all came out in the end.

Make sure that you also get a copy of tellique from them because you'll 
need it to actually route packets across the link :-)


Cheers,

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Onno Benschop

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