Error: "major number of /dev/lirc is 4"

[Vipin J. <vip...@gm...>]

Hi

I installed lirc 0.7.2 on my linuxbox with Fedora core 4 in it but my
pctv remote control did not work after the first restart.
Reinstalling it didnt work either.

On  checking, i found out that /dev/lirc does on exist nor does any /dev/li=
rc0.
So, i made a symlink lirc to ttyS0 then on running
    # lircd -n
and
   # irw

both stop with lircd giving the following:

[root@Seraph dev]# lircd -n
lircd 0.7.2: lircd(serial) ready
lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd 0.7.2: could not get hardware features
lircd 0.7.2: this device driver does not support the new LIRC interface
lircd 0.7.2: major number of /dev/lirc is 4
lircd 0.7.2: LIRC major number is 61
lircd 0.7.2: check if /dev/lirc is a LIRC device
lircd 0.7.2: caught signal
Terminated

and also

[root@Seraph dev]# ls -l ttyS0
crw-rw----  1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 29 22:50 ttyS0

i replaced the link with a character pipe.
   # mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0

this gave me the following:
[root@Seraph dev]# lircd -n
lircd 0.7.2: lircd(serial) ready
lircd 0.7.2: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
lircd 0.7.2: could not open /dev/lirc
lircd 0.7.2: default_init(): No such device
lircd 0.7.2: caught signal
Terminated

kernel modules are under /lib/modules/2.6.13-1.1532_FC4/updates/drivers/lir=
c/
directory

Pls, help.
Vipin