[vdr] Re: Hauppauge DVB-C, Conax and PCMCIA?

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Montag, 10. November 2003 17:06 schrieben Sie:
> If I have one of the rather rare systems which has both PCI- and PCMCIA-
> card slots, could I plug a Conax CAM module directly into the PCMCIA
> without getting a Common Interface module for the Hauppauge DVB-C card?
>

Electrically it's no problem to put a CAM into a PCMCIA-Slot as a CAM is just 
a microprocessor with firmware and PCMCIA-interface. As a CAM has a well 
defined interface, it also would be easy to support it in software-players.

But currently there is no kernel-module to handle a CAM. Because of the 
standardized interface of the CAM that module would just have to register the 
device and pass through the ioctls of the CAM-interface.

I volunteered to do the things around (gathering vendor-IDs, registering a 
major number for CAMs, etc.) several times, but I didn't find anyone who 
volunteered to do the programming part for the kernel-module.

That solution even would be legal as you use the CAM/Smartcard delivered by 
your payTV-provider ...

Rene


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