diff --git a/plugins/other/femon b/plugins/other/femon
index 7b3bb20b..bcdec56a 100755
--- a/plugins/other/femon
+++ b/plugins/other/femon
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 # Author: Nicolas Knotzer  <nknotzer@gmail.com>
 # 
 # v1.0 02/10/2011
+# v1.1 20/10/2011 - Prints OSError.strerror in verbose mode, uses rsplit instead of split for parsing femon output
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2011 Nicolas Knotzer.
 #
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ statefiledir='/var/lib/munin/plugin-state'
 
 import os, sys, string, subprocess
 from math import log
-plugin_version="1.0"
+plugin_version="1.1"
 
 def verboselog(s):
     global plugin_name
@@ -116,10 +117,11 @@ def print_dvb_adapter_values(dvb_adapter) :
         verboselog('Reading values from '+dvb_adapter[0])
         femon_output=subprocess.check_output([os.getenv('femonpath','/usr/bin/femon'), '-H', '-c 1', '-a '+dvb_adapter[0].replace('adapter','')])
         verboselog(femon_output)
-    except :
+    except OSError, e:
         verboselog('Cannot access femon values! Check user rights or proper femon installation.')
+        verboselog('Error: '+e.strerror)
         sys.exit(1)
-    splitstr=femon_output.split ('|')
+    splitstr=femon_output.rsplit ('|',5)
     print ('str.value '+splitstr[1].replace('signal','').strip(' %'))
     print ('snr.value '+splitstr[2].replace('snr','').strip(' %'))
     print ('ber.value '+splitstr[3].replace('ber','').strip(' '))
@@ -257,7 +259,7 @@ B<munin-node-configure> use this to build the service links for this wildcard-pl
 
 =head1 VERSION
 
-Version 1.0
+Version 1.1
 
 =head1 BUGS