Some SIR Help...

[Matt M. <mat...@gm...>]

Hey, I'm trying to get lirc to work on my asus z81sp laptop (using the
sir driver). I've managed to get everything compiled but when I go to
run irw or even mode2, nothing comes out of it when I press any
buttons.

I am in gentoo, amd64

How I start it is:
modprobe lirc_sir
lircd -n -H default -d /dev/lirc/0

Under dmesg, lirc_sir returns:
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
lirc_sir: I/O port 0x03e8, IRQ 4.
lirc_sir: Installed.

I have been able to get input from the port once, using the irman
driver and directly running cat /dev/ttyS1. This spat out a bunch of
raw data whenever I pressed buttons on the remote control, so my port
works.

Is there a different driver i should be using? how do I tell what IR
chipset this laptop has?

Many Thanks
Matt