I'm pulling a sneaky trick on my MythBox. I'm using an infrared keyboard and a learning remote so that I can simply teach the remote all of the key combinations to operate Myth and the ugly keyboard can live in a closet.

I still need to use lirc with an irblaster to control my Dish Network set-top box and I can't get the booger to play nice.

• I installed the lirc and lirc-kmp-default (matching my kernel) with smart.
• I created .etc/lircd.conf for my set-top box with a file found on the lirc web site.
• I ran
  Code:

  /bin/mknod /dev/lircd c 72 0

• I created /etc/rc.d/rc.local with these lines:
  Code:

  /sbin/modprobe lirc_serial
  /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc0 --output=/dev/lircd
  /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc1 --output=/dev/lircd1 --pidfile=/var/run/lircd1.pid

• ...added these lines to /etc/modprobe.conf.local:
  Code:

  alias char-major-61-1 lirc_serial
  options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8
  ####IR setup####
  install lirc_serial setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial

  (I know that port address for COM1 is correct, but I'm unsure about the IRQ)
• ...created the script /usr/local/bin/change_chan.sh:
  Code:

  #!/bin/sh
  REMOTE_NAME=dish
  for digit in $(echo $1 | sed -e 's/./& /g'); do
  irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME $digit
  sleep 0.4 # note, you may have to tweak the interdigit delay up a bit
  done
  irsend --device=/dev/lircd1 SEND_ONCE $REMOTE_NAME select

  along with the requisite
  Code:

  chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/change_chan.sh

• ...rebooted

and a test command, such as /usr/local/bin/change_chan.sh 12, nets me repeated complaints:typically 3 to 5 times before dropping me back to the prompt.

lsmod does not show lirc_serial being loaded, but it loads without complaint via modprobe.

Even then, I get the error from the command line. I've checked the GUI runlevel editor and it shows the lirc daemon as stopped, and it won't start unless I modprobe lirc_serial in first.

I still get no joy, though.

What do I do next?

TIA,

J