> I think there is a legal way. Add a PCMCIA interface to your PC, plug a CAM, > and write a PCMCIA driver using the pcmcia-cs package. You'll find all the > documentation on the Common Interface at www.etsi.org . > I think it shouldn't be very difficult. We once build an interface to a CA-Module (the Modules used in the d-box and Micronik (for example in the MAM600+)). We took an old PCMCIA-Socket, disconnected the TS at the tuner, and fed it through the CAM.
These CA-Modules aren't anything like CI or even PCMCIA, they just share the physical interface. It is a much easier interface, both at the hardware layer and in the software layer. It just controlled via I2C-Commands, which are undocumented but easy to sniff using some hardware. We never came to the part where the cam was actually descrambling, since we had never connect a cardslot, but the cam accepted and responded to our I2C-Commands and let the TS stream come through (which is an indication for a proper initialisation of the hardware of the cam). We had to invert some lines before and after the CAM though. (explained a bit at http://www.dominance.net/overflow/kg.html, in german) The advantage of this "project" would be that it's perfectly legal (comparable to a self-made CI-interface), the disadvantage is, off course, that you're limited to Betacrypt, or, with the 0CAM-Patch (which is, in my eyes, not so legal anymore), even irdeto. the next step would be to extend this to a CI-interface, but this would be a bit more complex. Maybe somebody is able to take a PCI->PCMCIA bridge, and reconnect the redefined lines to the NOVA, which leads to a "dual" PCI card. bye, felix domke -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.