I cant see my tv adapter. In my case it is a firewire card: FireDTV. 
# lspci:
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
# lsmod:
firedtv                32746  0 
dvb_core              110616  1 firedtv
firewire_ohci          40722  0 
firewire_core          63626  2 firedtv,firewire_ohci
# dmesg | grep fire:
[    2.738621] firewire_ohci 0000:03:0e.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[    2.792118] firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:03:0e.0, OHCI v1.10, 4 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x2
[    3.292119] firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 0076fb5b00001fd0, S400
[    3.292137] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
[    6.325699] firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 00128726020004b3, S400, 1 config ROM retries
[    8.040030] firedtv fw1.0: FCP response timed out
[    8.068150] firedtv: probe of fw1.0 failed with error -110
hope somebody can give me a hint. I also have no folder /dev/dvb . So the last two lines in dmesg tell sme the card is not installed succesfully. On my last installation I had to install a new module but I cant remember and find which one :(