creative infra remote newbie help

[Matthew B. <ma...@ss...>]

I am new to lirc but I think I ahve done everything it has suggested.  
First of all, I got a creative infra receiver pc-dvd remote thingy.  I 
tested it under w2k and it worked fine using com2 on a laptop.  I try to 
get it setup under linux and I have no luck.  It is a stock RH9 system 
and I was using  0.6.6 rpms. 

Here is what I did:

1) I copied the lirc.conf.creative to /etc/lirc.conf,
2) I started lircd -n, and irw and got nothing out. 
3) I noticed the /dev/lirc was a link to ttyS0 and thought com2=ttyS1, 
right??  I changed the link to ttyS1, restarted lircd and then restarted 
irw and then got a signal error from the lircd window.  I noticed that a 
setserial yields a uart on com2 as unknown.  Does that mean that that 
port is not available or is it just not configured?? 

I am stuck now,   Has anyone gotten to the same point I am at and worked 
past it?
Thanks
Matt