* My daughters PC is based on an ASUS motherboard, but it seems that the NIC (Network Interface Card) doesn’t work. There are a few more or less complex solutions to it, but it seems no plug and play solution is obtainable. Also, in general applying fixes to a faulty NIC function is messy as it means running around the house using a USB stick, where the downloaded stuff is on the stick. This lack of drivers and Plug ‘n Play that is Plug ‘n Pray drives me nuts. I downloaded an ISO of the Ubuntu 8.10 beta, but booting that freaked the monitor. It defaulted to 1152*whatever (which I know as the monitors warning system told me) on a 17″ monitor that can only do 1024*768. Oh, how do I HATE this!

* My HTPC has a GRUB based dual boot, and I just booted the Mythbuntu partition where my account was suddenly gone.

That’s it. Mythbuntu is getting out of here! I’m killing that partition right here and now! Exit my life you incomplete retarded piece of cracp!

Installing it was fine, and configuring it was also fine. There was only ONE small problem – the TV card didn’t work! Twinhan 3030 is a nice card. If can do 1080p and it has a port for a CA module.

There are drivers on the Twinhan, but they are for another distribution. The recommended option is to use the general Mantis ones. Modus operandi described below. Or should I say; below you find a tutorial on how to do it. It still doesn’t work of course, but it’s doing it as it should be done and if the download would have worked then it would be a proper way to get them to work. Now I can just recommend running another OS for this, or use another TV card. The advantage using the Twinhan card – the CA slot – is after all slim if you can use cardsharing or a dedicated reader for your own legit card…

cd /tmp
#make sure_ krenel sources are installed
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
#downloading driver
wget -c http://jusst.de/hg/mantis/archive/tip.tar.bz2

#unpacking driver
tar -xf tip.tar.bz2
#copying new dvb_net to correct directory
cd mantis-83e2af36efe7
#run installation
make
sudo make install