Redhat 9 and Dell8100

[Timothy J. <t.a...@ve...>]

I am having problems getting lirc to work under Redhat 9 on a Dell 8100.
It tells me that no device exists. I am fairly new to linux. I know why
way around some things, but I guess not that good yet. I have also tried
to start IRDA, and that loads ok on boot, but I cant seem to get that to
work with anything. Anyhelp would be great thanks