No serial irblaster after Fedora 14 upgrade

[Andrew C. <And...@ip...>]

After upgrading from Fedora 13 to 14 my serial irblaster stopped 
working. I'm getting no error messages, other than:

  lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 250
  lirc_serial: module is from the staging directory, the quality is 
unknown, you have been warned.

The blaster has an indicator LED and it no longer flashes.

The problem seems to be restricted to the serial blaster because I've 
plugged in a USB MCE blaster and it works fine with no command changes.

I'm also using an ATI USB RF remote which works fine:

# ps ax | grep lircd
   1738 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=atilibusb 
--device=/dev/null
  2151 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default 
--device=/dev/lirc0 --output=/dev/lircd0 --pidfile=/var/run/lircd0.pid
  2167 ?        S      0:42 /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=atilibusb 
--device=/dev/null

and the irsend command looks like:

irsend --device=/dev/lircd0 SEND_ONCE PHILIPS_RC-5-extended 
sys_10_command_11

These are the modprobe file settings:

alias char-major-61-0 lirc_serial
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8 debug=1
install lirc_serial setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none; /sbin/modprobe 
--ignore-install lirc_serial

The module appears in /proc/interrupts only sometimes? Otherwise there 
is no module assuciated with IRQ 4. Either way it didn't work and the 
interrupt count never went higher than 4. I tried building a custom 
2.6.36.2 kernel without the serial modules but that made no difference 
either.

I verified the problem using a second serial blaster and a second Fedora 
14 machine.


thanks
-- 
Andrew