[mythtv-users] lirc_serial woes

Noel Murphy bnmurphy at rogers.com
Fri Nov 26 03:29:25 UTC 2004


I was hoping people here could help me.

I am having trouble getting my homebrew IR receiver working. I'm 
running Fedora Core 2, with kernel 2.6.9.

The receiver I'm using is this one: http://lnx.manoweb.com/lirc/

I tried following the directions on the IR receiver's webpage, but I'm 
having no luck.
Since I've followed Jarod's guide for my mythtv setup, I already have 
lirc installed (and running). However, I think it is configured wrong.
I tried running mode2, to view that the buttons on the remote were 
getting through, but I get the following:

This program is only intended for receivers supporting the pulse/space 
layer.
Note that this is no error, but this program simply makes no sense for 
your
receiver.
In order to test your setup run lircd with the --nodaemon option and
then check if the remote works with the irw tool.

I think the issue is that I don't have the lirc_serial module loaded.
When I run: /sbin/modprobe lirc_serial, I get

FATAL: Module lirc_serial not found.

Sorry if this seems really basic, but modules / drivers etc is always 
the part of linux that I have never figured out.

Do I need to recompile lirc to get the lirc_serial module available to 
me? I did download the latest version of lirc and ran the ./setup 
program, chose the corresponding serial port / interrupt. Then I chose 
the "save configuration and run configure", however I then get the 
error that I don't have the kernel source install.

I did an apt-get source kernel and I got a 
"kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.src.rpm" file at the root of my disk. Running the 
./setup again still says I don't have the source installed.

I'm totally confused. Any help would be appreciated.

Noel



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