Andy O'Brien wrote:

Hey Jeff, I have a similar problem to the one discussed below sometime
back, hoping you can help:

I have an "old" IRman plugged into com1 on my system, but can't get it
to take input at all.

I did the changes you suggested below, changed the symlink for
/dev/lirc to point to /dev/ttyS0

I didn't make that change on mine, although I have seen where others needed it.


, lircd starts ok, but irrecord
doesn't work and irw just exits to prompt immediately. Am I missing
something? Below is some of my settings, my box is sucessfully
connected via firewire, just using the remote to control myth.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# /sbin/service lircd start
Starting infrared remote control daemon:                   [  OK  ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ps -ef | grep lircd
root      5164     1  0 14:58 ?        00:00:00 lircd --driver=irman
--device=/dev/ttyS0

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ps -ef | grep lircd
root 4441 1 0 May08 ? 00:00:00 lircd --driver=irman --device=/dev/ttyS14


root 5168 4799 0 14:59 pts/2 00:00:00 grep lircd


root     27076 27033  0 21:26 pts/5    00:00:00 grep lircd

[EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# irw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# cd /dev/lir*
-bash: cd: /dev/lirc: Not a directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls -l /dev/lir*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 15 14:52 /dev/lirc -> ttyS0
crw------- 1 root root 61, 0 May 15 14:19 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 May 15 14:58 /dev/lircd


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ll /dev/lir*
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root 0 May  8 21:15 /dev/lircd

I think the symlink you may need is from /dev/lirc0 to /dev/lirc, not ttyS0. The command line parameter should take care of pointing to ttyS0.

If I switch the lirc link to point to lirc0 I get a connection refused
when running irw.



I hope this helps. I'm not much of a guru. I just got mine to work and hoped what I did would work for others, since I didn't see any single source for the info.


Jeff.


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