Actisys IR220 - howto install

[Leonard T. <l.t...@mp...>]

Hi!

I'm new hear, so please don't flame me.
This might be easy for most of you, but I am baffled.
I just bought an Actisys IR220L+ on ebay.
It's a serial Infrared Adapter.
What I don't quite manage is to setup lirc correctly.
I tried on a LinVDR partition. I also tried in Mandrake 10.1
I configured /etc/sysconfig/lirc to use serial and default
I tried "mode2" (wouldn't let me in, cause it said, my hardware is to 
advance and the program wouldn't make sense)
I stopped lircd
I created links to /dev/lircd (for /dev/ttyS0)
I tried irrecord, but it also didn't do anything.

I even found a remote-control conf on the website, which perfectly 
matches my remote.

So, how can I debug that problem. Is it the adapter, is it lirc, is it 
the remote?

Cheers
Leonard