Mandrake 9.1 a doomed lirc operation system! Why does lirc not work for me!

[Chris G. <net...@ho...>]

Ok I'm fed up with lirc, I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1, ran the ./setup.sh, 
make, make install all successfull and then modprobed and it fails. I again 
tried everything else, set serial ttyS0 uart none, modprobe lirc_serial 
fails. I even urpmi'd lirc from mandrake, and that one really isnt working 
either. I know there is a serious mess up on mandrake 9.0/9.1 with lirc, but 
there has to be a way to actually install and run lirc! By the way I built 
the simple lirc receiver and improved transmitter, which both work 
flawlessly in windows with winlirc, and the receiver has worked before in 
linux. So what am I doing wrong? Can someone please tell me how to get lirc 
to work in mandrake 9.1, with that stupid prepackaged lirc that screws up 
the kernel as shown below:

modprobe lirc_serial gives the following error:
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_serial.o.gz:
init_module: Input/output error
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameteres, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the
out from dmesg modprobe: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/3rdparty/lirc/lirc_serial.o.gz failed
modprobe: insmod lirc_serial failed

ok so check out log at /var/log/messages:
localhost: kernel: lirc_serial: auto-detected active low receiver
localhost: kernel: _devfs_append_entry(serial): dir: "lirc" is not a
directory
localhost: kernel: devfs_register(lirc/serial): could not append to parent,
err: -20
localhost: kernel: lirc_serial: devfs_register failed!

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