Bug or a faulty devise?

[Kris j. <kje...@ve...>]

Hello,
I have a mceusb transceiver (model # AVS Gear GP-IR02BK). That is
working for both receiving and transmitting in Ubuntu 10.10 and with
LIRC (0.8.7~pre3-0ubuntu1) using the kernels built in module “mceusb”  

So I bought another one of the same make and model. I had some problems
getting the second transceiver fully working so I returned it for a
replacement, thinking it was faulty.

However the replacement is doing the same thing. It can receive signals
fine but well not send signals.
The only differences I see between the two are: 

(On working transceiver.)

~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1784:0008)"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:06.0-3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=fff 0 108fc326 217604100000000 0 118000 418000100001
9e968000000000 10000000And 

~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 1784:0008 TopSeed Technology Corp. eHome Infrared
Transceiver

The other transceiver that is not working for transmitting (recv’s
fine). That is swapped for the working one on same computer then
rebooted returns: 

~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver (1784:0011)"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:04.0-5/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/rc/rc0/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=100003
B: KEY=fff 0 108fc326 217604100000000 0 118000 418000100001
9e968000000000 10000000And 

~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 1784:0011 TopSeed Technology Corp.

What’s going on here? I hope that my luck is not just that bad to have
two bad devises one after the other.  But I kind of doubt it. Seeing
that it receives ok.

Please advise Thank you.

Kris Jensen