Strav's blog

One of my major hesitations about upgrading the myth frontends to kernel 2.6 was the LIRC modules. The modules are not included with the kernel source distributions and can be tough to compile. Well, since Zap2it discontinued their free guide data service and I had upgrade Myth to accomodate the new DataDirect service, I was forced to update libc6 and thus the kernel to 2.6. Getting the LIRC modules to compile has been every bit as fun as I had anticipated and we have spent several days using the wireless keyboard to control Myth since the remote control hasn't been working. With the help of the following 2 pages I was able to finally get the modules to compile and load.

This article describes the 'new' method of compiling the lirc modules. Basically use module-assistant to do it. It would have been fantastic if the documentation had mentioned this (fantastic meaning several days worth of frustration and effort could have been saved).

Version 8 of LIRC apparently needs to have the serial port configured properly as this page details. The command is "setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none" and as illustrated, I have added this to the /etc/rc.local file so it is executed every time the system is started.