state of the ttusbir driver

[Thomas K. <th...@kr...>]

Hello,

I have a usb-dongled infra red remote, manufactured by Technotrend.
Googling the product/vendor id got me to the ttusbir lirc driver. [1]

I built the latest lirc release (0.8.4a) and loaded the kernel modules
lirc_dev & lirc_ttusbir. The device is recognized by the driver:

[ 1170.796310] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61 
[ 1170.808215] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
[ 1170.808242] usbcore: registered new interface driver TTUSBIR

When i do a "cat /dev/lirc0" and press some buttons on the remote,
there's definately activity.
But when i try to monitor it by mode2, xmode2 or irw + licd, I get
following errors:

root@myhost # mode2 -d /dev/lirc0=20
mode2: could not get hardware features
mode2: this device driver does not support the new LIRC interface
mode2: make sure you use a current version of the driver

root@myhost # lircd -n -d /dev/lirc0=20
lircd: could not open config file '/etc/lircd.conf'
lircd: No such file or directory
lircd: lircd(default) ready
lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd        <-- this is where I start irw
lircd: could not get hardware features
lircd: this device driver does not support the new LIRC interface
lircd: make sure you use a current version of the driver
lircd: WARNING: Failed to initialize hardware

Both, kernelmodules _and_ lirc userland are from release 0.8.4a, I
checked that! 
My kernel is the current debian testing default kernel: 2.6.26-1-amd64

So my question is: Am I doing something wrong? Or is the driver
outdated?


With kind regards,
Thomas Karmann


[1] lsusb output: http://pbot.rmdir.de/5b992dc3c90f705afde4e7fbb786c398

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