Re: irsend 'hardware does not support sending' problem

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On May 23, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Rick Rigby wrote:

> I'm having an extremely frustrating time getting lirc to run on Fedora 14 (Laughlin), kernel 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686
> Unfortunately I only get an hour or two a week to tinker with it, so this has dragged on for weeks...
> I'm using a home-brew IR receiver & transmitter(two separate devices at this point) connected to an old-fashioned RS23 serial port.
> 
> I'm able to run irrecord and record config files for all my remotes (I will send them along so others can use them)
> 
> I can only run irrecord 'manually', 'make install' doesn't seem to work at all. After 'make install'

Why are you doing a 'make install' at all? Fedora has all the needed
bits already.


> I have no lirc device (/dev/lirc does not exist) so none of the programs work. If I manually install lirc_dev.ko and lirc_serial.ko I get a /dev/lirc0 device. If I     disable ttyS0, and start lircd, then I am able to run mode2 and irrecord successfully.

Its fully expected that you have to disable the standard serial driver and
load the lirc_serial driver by hand.


> If I try to send a code using irsend I get the "hardware does not support sending" error.
> What do I need to do to enable sending?

Sounds like you may have overridden the Fedora kernel's provided lirc_dev
and lirc_serial, with an lirc_serial that wasn't built with transmit
support enabled. What does 'modinfo lirc_serial' say?

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Jarod Wilson
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