Re: lirc problems -- "irsend: hardware does not support sending"

[gwg <gwg...@wi...>]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
> On Jul 1, 2011, at 9:22 PM, gwg wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Trying to get lirc-0.9.0 working. It installed without any obvious error
>> message
>> 
>> Distro is Debian/squeeze stable using kernel 2.6.38-bpo.2-amd64
>> I am trying to use a home brew irblaster connected to the only serial
>> port
>> 
>> In running setup.sh from the lirc-0.9.0 folder, I selected all of the
>> defaults
>>  snip-snip
>>  
>> 
>> snip-snip
>> 
>>> From what I have read, there are some significant problems with
>>> lirc_serial; 
>> also found the  item  "lirc_serial_fixed"; the readme in
>> lirc_serial_fixed
>> states:
>>     This is a fixed (working) copy of lirc_serial
>>      for use with Linux kernels 2.6.35, 2.6.36, and 2.6.37.
>> 
>> How do I get rid of the "hardware does not support sending" error
> 
> The lirc_serial module in 2.6.38 and on works just fine here, even for
> transmit, so I'm not sure what's going on there. You really don't
> want lirc 0.9.0 to be building and/or installing kernel modules though,
> you should be using lirc_serial from the kernel. 'modinfo lirc_serial'
> should tell us which one you're using. Load it with the debug=1 option,
> and maybe dmesg will show some more interesting info (debug=1 to the
> lirc_dev module as well might help).
> 
> -- 
> Jarod Wilson
> ja...@wi...
> 
> 
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> 
'modinfo lirc_serial' shows that I am now using the kernel supplied version;
It was still necessary to "install" lirc (this time I used the debian .deb)
to get the commands (ie irsend etc)
It is still not working; but I believe there are some things that need to be
done that the .deb package does not take
take care of; I am re-reading the lirc doc to see what has been missed

Gary





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