DVB-C (CT-3650) with UnityMedia CI Module not working

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Tue Jun 26 16:04:32 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 26 June 2012 17:54:28 Timo Schäfer wrote:
> Am 26.06.2012 17:47, schrieb Timo Schäfer:
> > Am 26.06.2012 17:37, schrieb Hans Petter Selasky:
> >> On Monday 25 June 2012 17:48:05 Timo Schäfer wrote:
> >>> ./adapter0/ca0
> >> 
> >> Can you use the device shown above?
> >> 
> >> --HPS
> > 
> > how? vdr is not talking to it / does not detect it.
> > 
> > under linux vdr looks at the attached ci module and inserted smartcard
> > to unscramble
> > the channel if needed.
> > 
> > with my freebsd setup vdr does not detect the ci module and cannot use
> > the smartcard
> > to open the scrambled channels.
> > 
> > crw-rw----  1 webcamd  webcamd    0,  97 Jun 26 17:40 ca0
> > 
> > has the needed rights, but i guess its not used/detected.
> 
> Ah there is something in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jun 26 14:00:20 barney vdr: [680406016] ERROR: can't get info of CAM
> slot 0 on device 0: Invalid argument
> Jun 26 14:00:28 barney last message repeated 15 times

Hi,

> 
> does not look good but that seems to be the problem.

Maybe it is a known IOCTL issue. Some IOCTL needs to be fixed before they can 
be used, because the RW flags are not correct.

Try figuring out what IOCTL this is with ktrace or something like that. Or 
simply grep in the code for that error message. Then see if the RW flags are 
correct.

--HPS


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