DVBSky S960 (v2) installation issues

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I recently bought the Vero 4K and I love it.

Now I bought the DVBSky S960v2 to replace my old DVB-S2 Receiver by Vero+S960.

I tried using it plug and play with TVHeadend but it isn’t recognized as TV Adapter.

I installed usbutils and under lsusb, the S960 is recognized. Log here: https://paste.osmc.tv/goziqeluci

But with dmesg | grep dvb I don’t get any output at all…

grab-logs -A as follows: https://paste.osmc.tv/lehonubena

Please help, I am not linux savvy at all :frowning:

EDIT: i switched the USB ports on the Vero in between rebooting, so the port numbers might be different between both logs.

Also I downloaded the firmware from dvbsky.net and copied it to /lib/firmware/ - nothing changed.

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There is probably no kernel module for it at the moment

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anything I can do?

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Wait for now – there will be some DVB improvements which will probably add support for your adapter.

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Hi Sam,

I tried compiling it myself with my almost non-existent knowledge of Linux and kernels…

I pretty much followed [HowTo] Compile DVB Media Build drivers on RPi 3 this explanation except changing the version from the RPi to 3.14.29-55-osmc for my Vero 4k.

And I used the driver source from the manufacturers web site (media_build-bst-14-141106 from DVBSky - Enjoy HDTV on PC! DVB-T2 / DVB-S2 Professional TV Tuner Card and Box for PC. .
Guide used here: http://www.dvbsky.net/download/doc/Linux_driver_installation_Guide

But when trying any “make” commands I get the following message:

gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mstrict-align’; did you mean ‘-Wstrict-aliasing’?
KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE:-DMODULE

Is there any way around it?
In another thread you told someone to fix the Makefile. How would I do that?

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Try:

export CC=/usr/bin

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Didn’t change anything unfortunately

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Also try export CROSS_COMPILE with the same

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osmc@vero:/lib/modules/3.14.29-55-osmc/build$ export CC=/usr/bin
osmc@vero:/lib/modules/3.14.29-55-osmc/build$ export CROSS_COMPILE=/usr/bin
osmc@vero:/lib/modules/3.14.29-55-osmc/build$ sudo make oldconfig
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mstrict-align’; did you mean ‘-Wstrict-aliasing’?
KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE:-DMODULE
scripts/kconfig/conf --oldconfig Kconfig
drivers/amlogic/wifi/bcmdhd/Kconfig:50:warning: defaults for choice values not supported
#
# configuration written to .config
#

Still not able to make anything… Sorry for bothering you with my shallowness

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I think you are using the wrong toolchain

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okay, I think I messed something up big time…

after rebooting, I am stuck in a sad face loop without being able to ssh or anything…

Guess I will reinstall osmc on the vero and try again from scratch.

Will keep you posted

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As long as you haven’t lost anything important, then no harm done. Reinstalling the kernel will probably fix this for you however, as you probably just borked your kernel modules.

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Sooooo…
I reinstalled, only thing I did after freshly installing was apt-get gcc and make.

I then downloaded the (supposedly) correct driver for kernel 3.14.x - 3.17.0.

It’s manual said

—Compile and install driver
1)Enter the source code directory

2)Check and choose one of the target systems, run ‘uname -a’ to get os informaton.
./v4l/build_x86.sh if build for 32 bit system os to support multi-standard, include DVB-T,DVB-T2 and DVB-C.
./v4l/build_dvbc_x86.sh if build for 32 bit system os to support DVB-C.
./v4l/build_x64.sh if build for 64 bit system os to support multi-standard, include DVB-T,DVB-T2 and DVB-C.
./v4l/build_dvbc_x64.sh if build for 64 bit system os to support DVB-C.

3)Compile the source code:
make

I used the x64 for the Vero4k version of osmc.
The .sh-File contains

#!/bin/bash

cp ./v4l/sit2_op.o.x64 ./v4l/sit2_op.o
cp ./v4l/sit2_mod.dvb ./linux/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/sit2_mod.c

and “make” results in

osmc@vero:~/media_build-bst-14$ make
make -C /home/osmc/media_build-bst-14/v4l 
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/osmc/media_build-bst-14/v4l“ wird betreten
Updating/Creating .config
Preparing to compile for kernel version 3.14.29
File not found: /lib/modules/3.14.29-55-osmc/build/.config at ./scripts/make_kconfig.pl line 33, <IN> line 4.
make[1]: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Ziel „.config“, 
  benötigt von „.myconfig“, zu erstellen.  Schluss.
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/osmc/media_build-bst-14/v4l“ wird verlassen
Makefile:26: die Regel für Ziel „all“ scheiterte
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

sorry for it being German…
So you mentioned earlier I might be using the wrong toolchain… How would I use the correct one in this?

Edit:
From the other mentioned HowTo ([HowTo] Compile DVB Media Build drivers on RPi 3) I tried to copy the /boot/config-3.14.29-55-osmc to /lib/modules/3.14.29-55-osmc/.config to avoid the make-process not finding any .config… But that resulted in the error mentioned in my first post.

Need help turning OSMC into the proper build environment for compiling a wireless adapter driver - #2 by fzinken here you said

You just run make under kernel-osmc after a clone.

maybe that’s it? How would I do that?

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sudo apt-get install aarch64-toolchain-osmc
chroot /opt/osmc-tc/aarch64-toolchain-osmc
mount --bind (in another session) your working directory and build there.

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still getting the same error
mounted my working directory to /opt/osmc-tc/aarch64-toolchain-osmc/mediakram

root@vero:/mediakram# make
make -C /mediakram/v4l 
make[1]: Entering directory '/mediakram/v4l'
/bin/sh: 1: /sbin/lsmod: not found
Updating/Creating .config
Preparing to compile for kernel version 3.14.29
File not found: /lib/modules/3.14.29-55-osmc/build/.config at ./scripts/make_kconfig.pl line 33, <IN> line 4.
make[1]: *** No rule to make target '.config', needed by '.myconfig'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mediakram/v4l'
Makefile:26: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
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Install the kmod package

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via apt-get install kmod it is already installed apparently.

the scripts/make_kconfig.pl says
WARNING: You do not have the full kernel sources installed.
This does not prevent you from building the v4l-dvb tree if you have the
kernel headers, but the full kernel source may be required in order to use
make menuconfig / xconfig / qconfig.

If you are experiencing problems building the v4l-dvb tree, please try
building against a vanilla kernel before reporting a bug.

Vanilla kernels are available at http://kernel.org.
On most distros, this will compile a newly downloaded kernel:

cp /boot/config-`uname -r` <your kernel dir>/.config
cd <your kernel dir>
make all modules_install install

Please see your distro's web site for instructions to build a new kernel.

I think I am getting closer… but I am too inexperienced to know my way out…

The driver ist just a version of the media_build.git which I am trying to get to work for my kernel - if that helps…

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It might be a bit tricky to explain this one in detail.

Support for media_build will arrive soon so waiting may be the best solution.

Sam

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Okay, at least there is hope.

I just wanted to make sure that the adaptor can work with the Vero at all, since I bought it just for that purpose.

Otherwise I would have returned it to maybe buy a Sundtek or something.

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If it works under media_build it will eventually (hopefully soon) work under OSMC.

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