[mythtv-users] IR Transmitter help with RC, receiving some errors

[Chris Germano]

Thx for the reply, I just tried it, without any luck. I actually just 
plugged my home brewed receiver and transmitter (on same serial) into my 
windows box, installed winlirc and in 10 seconds it was learning remote 
commands and firing them out perfectly. Don't know why linux has to be so 
complicated.

Anyhow I still receive the "hardware does not support this setting" whenever 
I try a rc command. I think I might know where my problem lies, its either 
in my /etc/sysconfig/lircd file which has all the com settings, and the lack 
of me actually having a lirc_serial.o file in my 
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/misc/ folder. If I copy it from the 
lirc/drivers/lirc_serial folder and restart lirc, nothing will work. So 
something is ammis here. Can someone please post their entire 
/etc/sysconfig/lircd file here. If possible can you also attach that 
lirc_serial.o file, it should be found in /lib/modules/yourkernel#/misc/ thx

Basically to setup lirc, this is what I did:
Used urpmi lirc to set it up in mandrake,
Compiled it from /lirc-0.6.6 make make install w/ Com1 IRQ 4 & Transmitter 
setting from ./setup.sh,
Edited my /etc/sysconfig/lircd with just the following "DRIVER=default, 
HWMOD=lirc_serial, DEVICE=/dev/lirc/serial, COM_PORT=/dev/ttyS0,
and ran setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none

After that, i started lirc with /etc/init.d/lircd start, and it worked fine 
for receiving (except now mode2 keeps saying my hardware is not suitable or 
something).

Strangely I receive this: (ls -l /dev/li*)
total 0
crw------- 1 root root 61,    0 jan 1 1970 serial

So if anyone knows what my problems would be for setting up a transmitter 
let me know, and please post those files I asked for above! If you have 
gotten a transmitter to work with lirc, can you please post how you did it, 
this is driving me mad.

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