Re: "dvb_ca adaptor 0: PC card did not respond :(" with Technotrend S2-3200

[Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@telenet.be>]

On 06/14/11 12:43, Issa Gorissen wrote:
> On 13/06/2011 00:30, Bart Coninckx wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> hope you can help me this one, because there's not a whole of info
>> about similar problems to be found.
>>
>> I have a Technotrend S2-3200 with CI and on three different distros I
>> get this
>>
>> "dvb_ca adaptor 0: PC card did not respond :(
>>
>>
>> in /var/log/messages.
>
> Hi Bart,
>
> I've got the same card running under OpenSuse 11.4 and Mythtv 0.24.1
>
> I also have the same warning message, but somehow, when Mythtv grabs the
> device, the CAM will be reset successfully (at least, in my case).
>
> In the past, I solved this annoyance by adding a sleep in the CAM init
> code [1] relevant to the S2-3200 until I found out Mythtv does something
> about it.
>
> [1] drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c in function
> dvb_ca_en50221_thread(void) add a sleep of 5 or 10 secs between the 1st
> dprintk and the main loop.
>
> Hope this helps,
> --
> Issa

Issa,

thx a mille for this. I actually haven't really tried in Mythtv itself, 
I was just experimenting with szap and mplayer. But I figured that if 
they aren't working there, they would not elsewhere.

I do notice that while taking the card out and putting it back it, the 
CAM show as initialized successfully in dmesg.

I will try your suggestion though. Off topic, but would you advice 11.4 
in favor of 11.3? As a secondary route, I was thinking about using 
sasc-ng (softcamming, legal in this case) and the code seems not to want 
to compile on 11.4. Also 11.4 broke after updating the kernel.


thx again!


B.