>> /dev/lirc does not exist, however, /dev/lircd does when I run lircd –n.

I recently had same problem on FC3 (same output in messages). I had to create the /dev/lirc devicenode before it would work.
I created it as described on http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-8.html:

# mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0

My steps for making the remote work something like the following:

1. # apt-get install lirc-kmdl-$KVER
2. # apt-get install lirc

3. rename /lib/modules/$KVER/kernel/drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.ko to something else (e.g ati_remote.ko.orig)
4. Add "alias char-major-61 lirc_atiusb" and "alias lirc_dev lirc_atiusb" to modprobe.conf
5. # /sbin/chkconfig lircd on
6. Reboot to stop ati_remote.ko and start lircd
7. # mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0
8. # chmod 666 /dev/lirc*
8. I created my own lirc.conf with irrecord, because Litwillers lirc.conf did not work. I did not check  www.lirc.org whether there were one that worked.
9. Test it with irw. Remember to kill mythfrontend so that mythfrontend does not lock the device.
10. Download Litwillers http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/lircrc.txt to /home/~mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc

So I have both a /dev/lirc and a /dev/lircd. It did not work without the /dev/lirc:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ll /dev/li*
crw-------  1 root root 61, 0  8 sep 20:01 /dev/lirc
crw-------  1 root root 61, 0  8 sep 20:01 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 11 sep 10:11 /dev/lircd

Best regards
Niels

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