Can not connect to socket and how-to's do not seem to apply to me

[Bearcat M. S. <Li...@fe...>]

Folks, 

I've been struggling with lirc all day and i am a bit frustrated and looking 
for help.

I have compiled everything from source (using the Sourcemage distro).  I am on 
kernel 2.6.22 (x86_64).  

I have been following the instructions at 
http://www.eggshellskull.com/lirc/blaster/index.php , however this person 
seems to have a remote control and an ir blaster, where as i only have a   
Light Up RS232 IR Blaster. I just want to be able to send commands to MythTv 
through my keyboard.

Although he says i should have 5 files in /dev (lirc, lirc0, lirc1, lircd, 
lircd1) i have 4 (lirc, lircd, lircd1, lircdm).  I'm confused by the fact 
that i don't have an lirc0 and i have an lircd1.

Since i am *only* using the serial port for this i assume the items 
corresponding to lircd_i2c do not apply to me. 

If i do a "modprobe lirc_dev" and "modprobe lirc_serial" i get no errors.  
Then when i do 
a "/usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc --output=/dev/lircd1 --pidfile=/var/run/lircd1.pid" 
i see "lircd(serial) ready"

However doing a "irsend --device=/dev/lirc SEND_ONCE dish 08" gives 
me "irsend: could not connect to socket   irsend: Connection refused"
Doing the above command with /dev/lircd, /dev/lircd1 or /dev/lircm give me the 
same result. My  Light Up RS232 IR Blaster never turns red. 

I have tried recompiling lirc with Com2, but my motherboard header is marked 
as "COM1".

All of my /dev/lirc* are mode  666. All commands and tests have been run as 
root.

Thanks all.

My config files are as follows:
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/etc/modprobe.conf:
#20080901-bms-load up stuff for lirc to control DishNetwork reciever
alias char-major-61-0 lirc_serial
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8
####IR setup####
##install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install 
lirc_i2c
install lirc_serial setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 
none; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial
-----------------------------
/etc/sysconfig/bootmisc (loaded at boot time instead of putting it in it's 
startup script):
<snip> unrelated to lirc</snip>
#20070901-bms-Start lirc server
/sbin/modprobe lirc_dev
/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
-----------------------
I won't post my entire lircd.conf (as i'm not that far along anway), but the 
first few lines are:
begin remote
  name dish
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