Thank you for your kind replies, really appreciate the time and effort you go through to help other people, you make it a better world.

Sorry 4 being so vague,

Regarding When I go into soft cam set up in card server it has none. I use to have newcs. I reinstalled the software newcs. It now shows server type newcs in cccam card server, but card reader still won’t respond.
I do have the lines in you posted in my Cccam.cfg,
I can post it up but not to sure whether this is permitted,
You ask is there an option in your image to enable/ disable the port the reader is connected to?
No there is no option.

My dream box only has a serial port. no usb port
Really sorry guys to be a nuisance, thank you