lirc on a dd-wrt router

[<myt...@op...>]

Has anyone used lirc with dd-wrt? 
I had an ir blaster working with open wrt on a buffalo air station whr-g54s. I used the instructions found here to do this:
http://www.irblaster.info/blog/2007/04/lirc-on-router.html

I wanted to move to dd-wrt due to the many more features, but the same ipkg does not seem to work. 

The first time I run irsend it seems that lircd crashes: 
root@DD-WRT:/jffs/usr/bin# irsend SEND_ONCE DCT2000 root@DD-WRT:/jffs/usr/bin# irsend SEND_ONCE DCT2000 POWER 
irsend: could not connect to socket 
irsend: Connection refused 


I would appreciate any help if anyone else got this to work before I start digging through the code.  Thanks