Hi,

i'am using RedHat 8.0 and have some troubles loading the 'lirc_serial.o' module.

lsmod shows:

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
ircomm 10952 0 (unused)
irport 7952 0 (unused)
irtty 8032 0 (unused)
irda 121968 0 [ircomm irport irtty]
generic_serial 13692 0 (unused)

When i make a: insmod lirc_serial. The output is:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-18.8.0/misc/lirc_serial.o:
unresolved symbol __wake_up
unresolved symbol chrdev
unresolved symbol remove_wait_queue
unresolved symbol pollwait
unresolved symbol add_wait_queue
unresolved symbol sleep_on_timeout

a ls -l /dev/lirc*, tells me:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jan 6 15:11 /dev/lirc -> ttyS0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 14 10:40 /dev/lircd
prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 6 20:20 /dev/lircm

when i take a look on my kernel-configuration, i see that
IrDA subsystem support, IrDA protocols support and
the infrared-port device drivers are installed with module-config.
Dongle support is statically installed in the kernel

I think i don't have all required kernel modules loaded, of course because i don't know which one i have to install.
Does anyone know which kernel-module is required for lirc_serial?

Try modprobe instead of insmod. This resolves the dependencys automatically (if you're modules.conf is correct, did you follow the instructions for modules.conf?)

Hi,

the result with modprobe is the same. I set the following lines in the modules.conf:
alias char-major-61 lirc_serial
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3e8
The ttyS0 - COM1 Port is also like the 'options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3e8' line should be. (Told me setserial /dev/ttyS0 -a)

Hi,

I have the same problem here. Did you find a solution yet?

Thanx

Sorry. No.

I have a similar issue with lirc. I am trying to load lirc_gpio used for my TV card (Winfast 2000).
I have Redhat 8.0.

I have found and tried other solutions like
1. I created a symbolic link called "usr/src/linux" linked to the linux source directory.
2. I recompiled the drivers using command line option to point to my linux src directory.
Still have the same problem of unresolved modules when I run modprobe or insmod.

I have installed the IR support modules for my kernel
I read in the lirc documentation it recommends a vanilla kernel, I guess this is the next step.

Has anyone else found a solution to this problem?

Hi,

i think i found a solution, maybe you can try to compile a new kernel with the standard-redhat-kernel-config (feel free to modify it)

i read some thinks like: my installed kernel-rpms didn't match the installed kernel-source-rpms. .. so i recompiled the kernel, an it worked.