continued bw6130 woes.

[Marius S. <ma...@sc...>]

Hi,

  Sorry to repeat post this but I'm still banging my head on this one.

I've tried again to build lirc 0.7.2 following the documentation on the
mailn webpage. Everything appears to build fine after using the dialog
based ./configure and choosing:
1 Driver Configuration -> 8.USB devices -> 9. Remotec Multimedia PC Remote
BW6130
2. Software Configuration -> [X] 1. Compile Tools for X-Windows
3. Save Configuration & Run Configure

Configure reports:
...
...
 "Your hardware does not require a kernel module"



make and make install run with no errors.

I then copied the lirc.debian script from contrib to /etc/init.d/lirc and did

# update-rc.d lirc defaults 20
# chmod 666 /dev/lircd

# /etc/init.d/lirc start

results:

# cat /var/log/lircd
Sep 28 12:16:25 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: lircd(bw6130) ready
Sep 28 12:16:25 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Sep 28 12:16:25 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: initializing '/dev/lirc'
Sep 28 12:16:25 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: unable to open '/dev/lirc'
Sep 28 12:16:25 mythbox lircd 0.7.2: caught signalcat /

# ls -la /dev/ |grep lirc
crw-rw----   1 root root     61,   0 Sep 22 12:18 lirc
srw-rw-rw-   1 root root           0 Sep 28 12:17 lircd
prw-rw-rw-   1 root root           0 Aug 10 14:29 lircm

I suspect that /dev/lirc is not being mapped to the correct module, but
don't know what this should be or what major / minor numbers to use.

As configure didn't want to build a module I'm guessing that /dev/lirc
should be mapped to a regular usb device???

Could someone please say if this is correct and how I should do it....
or would just deleting the existing /dev/lirc and reinstalling lirc do it?

Cheers

Marius