lirc with serial ir receiver

[Jason W. <jw...@h2...>]

Hey everyone,
    I'm having a problem and I just want to make sure I'm going this 
correct.  I have two pvr150 cards and they came with the grayish silver 
remotes with 4 colored buttons on the bottom.  I want to use the remotes 
on my frontend only systems not with the actually pvr cards.  I was told 
that I could buy these to get the job done.

http://www.irblaster.info/?gclid=COH6vtCd2osCFSgRGgodOQInbA

I bought the rs232 IR Blaster.  First, can this setup even work?  If so 
what lirc driver do I use?  I've been trying to use the serial driver 
but I can't get irw to give me any output.  I picked ttyS0 with 3f8, 
which I did a dmesg to see what the kernel found and that was correct.  
I then tried to load it and saw the message about it being busy so I did 
the set serial command.  I could then load the lirc-serial driver.  I 
started lircd and then ran irw.  If doesn't return the command prompt 
right away and it appears to be working.  But I get no output when I put 
the remote at the receiver.  Am I doing something wrong?  I'm using 
ubuntu 7.04 and I tired using lirc that came with ubuntu using module 
assistant and building them from source.  I think I'm just doing 
something wrong, I just can't figure it out.  If someone could point me 
in the right direction I would be grateful.  Thanks for the help.

Jason