> "A couple of months" triggers me: for as far as I am aware dvb decoder > cards need regular 'entitlement messages' to continue to work. And > when the card is not in an active system for a long time it misses those > messages and gets shut out. You need to ask the card issuer to re-activate > the card (usually they offer this option on a website) and have the dvb-s > card, cam and dish all powered up and tuned to a transponder controlled > by the card-issuer. Usually they advise you to tune to a certain channel. I forgot to mentioned, the card has been active in a regular receiver when not used in the PC. If I put the card back in the receiver, the channels are decrypted successfully. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html