Yet Another SIR Woe

[Michael J. <ma...@l3...>]

Hey All,
	I've been battling with my onboard IrDa port (I know, I know) trying to
get it to work, this is how far i've gotten so far.

Laptop: Compaq evo n1000v
Distro/kernel: 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 (Gentoo)
LIRC version: 0.8.1 (gentoo ebuild) with LIRC_DEVICES="sir" to build
lirc_sir module.

Onboard IrDa: for FIR uses nsc-ircc (which I DONT load) HP HDSL1100/2100
Dongle

# modprobe 8250
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing
disabled
serial8250: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 4) is a NS16550A

# modprobe lirc_dev
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0

# setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none
# modprobe lirc_sir io=0x03e8
lirc_sir: I/O port 0x03e8, IRQ 4.
lirc_sir: Installed.

Device shows up in /dev/lirc/0

so I then:
# lircd -d /dev/lirc/0
lircd-0.8.1[12861]: could not open config file '/etc/lircd.conf'
lircd-0.8.1[12861]: No such file or directory
lircd-0.8.1[12862]: lircd(sir) ready

So I think great! I've gotten this far with no hiccups.
try
# mode2

and NOTHING, no input whatsoever

Trying other io/irq combinations yield no better results.

# cat /proc/tty/driver/serial
serinfo:1.0 driver revision:
0: uart:unknown port:000003F8 irq:4
1: uart:unknown port:000002F8 irq:3
2: uart:unknown port:000003E8 irq:4
3: uart:unknown port:000002E8 irq:3

Any ideas? My remote is an Easytip by RuWido, which I've gotten working
fine on another laptop with a serial receiver.
I'm using the Compaq laptop for a freevo HTPC box and it lacks a serial
port hence the onboard IrDa attempt.