no signal from receiver?

[Fagyal C. <co...@co...>]

Hi,

I am trying to set up a Fedora 10 installation with a homebrew serial 
receiver and Lirc.

I have lirc_serial loaded with modprobe lirc_serial irq=3 io=0x2e8 type=0 :
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod|grep lirc
lirc_serial            21280  0
lirc_dev               20408  1 lirc_serial

I did setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none before that.

I have the following in /dev:
[root@localhost ~]# ls -la /dev/lirc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     5 2009-03-05 01:09 /dev/lirc -> lirc0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 2009-03-05 01:09 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root     0 2009-03-05 01:06 /dev/lircd

The problem is that here I am stuck.

If I start lircd with:
lircd -n --device=/dev/ttyS3 --driver=default
And try using mode2 or irw, I get:
lircd-0.8.4a[4389]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd-0.8.4a[4389]: could not get hardware features
lircd-0.8.4a[4389]: this device driver does not support the new LIRC 
interface
lircd-0.8.4a[4389]: major number of /dev/ttyS3 is 4
lircd-0.8.4a[4389]: LIRC major number is 61
lircd-0.8.4a[4389]: check if /dev/ttyS3 is a LIRC device
lircd-0.8.4a[4389]: Failed to initialize hardware
lircd-0.8.4a[4389]: removed client

If I run it with:
[root@localhost ~]# lircd -n --device=/dev/lirc --driver=default
then there are no error messages, but no signal reception either:
lircd-0.8.4a[4479]: config file contains no valid remote control definition
lircd-0.8.4a[4479]: lircd(default) ready
lircd-0.8.4a[4479]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd-0.8.4a[4479]: removed client

I also tried to:
cat /dev/lirc
but got no output.

The serial receiver seems working: I can measure the correct voltages 
(Vcc 5V, ~3.9V on the signal), and I can also see it receives the IR 
signals (voltage drop when a remote button is pushed).

Any ideas?
- Fagzal