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You can't hook up the Satellite feed to any PC card because the feed is encrypted. What you can do is feed the output of the STB to a TV capture card. On some Directv STB's you can change the channels via a serial cable from the PC. Here is a thread from a another forum dedicated to home...

You will still have to change channels via the STB. Some of the Directv STB's have a serial cable interface that will allow the media center PC to change the channel or else you would need an IR blaster. You might want to check out an HTPC forum for more specifics on hooking up/using a Home...