DVB-S2 Card (DVBSky S952) think this will work?

Hi Folks,

I've spent A LOT of time looking into DVB-S2 cards and I 'think' this is the one to go for: DVBSky S952

Just wanted to check with those who know more than I do on the linux side that I'm not making a mistake..

Seems tested ok on various linux flavours and I'm sure in my hours of research I saw a post about it working with Debian

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVBSky

Im currently on 0.5.53 with 3.2.0 kernal

I have VDR working currently with external Sony PlayTV and XMBC via VNSI (that fun getting that working)

So next step its to move to satellite...

Thanks in advance.

Soo... adding to my own thread.. ( you know somethings up when your googling brings up your own post )

Found this.. still feeling my way with linux.. so wanted to know if this is going to break something.. I'm just not up to speed on driver building and kernel stuff..

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Installing Drivers

Generally, the drivers can be found on http://www.dvbsky.net/Support.html

Contrary to what its name suggests archive media_build-3.3.x.tar.gz installs the equipment as well as on 2.6 kernels on 3.x.

Start by installing the packages needed to compile:

sudo apt-get install linux-source linux-headers-`uname -r` make gcc patchutils libproc ProcessTable-sha1-perl-perl-libdigest

Download and unzip the archive:

wget-[url]http://www.dvbsky.net/download/media_build[/url] 3.3.x.tar.gz
tar zxvf media_build-3.3.x.tar.gz

Control compilation and installation of modules:

cd media_build
make
sudo make install

Download the firmware:

wget-[url]http://www.dvbsky.net/download/dvbsky[/url] firmware.zip
unzip dvbsky-firmware.zip
sudo sh-bst firmware.sh

Finally, cleaning ..

cd ..
sudo rm-R media_build

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All looks straight forward enough...