Acctually that is insignificant I am so sorry I haven't refined my documentation and finnished this already I just got swamped with work :-P with the mknod command it makes a device node to control the device. this is all that is needed. I'll look into it and see if I can find my old documentation and fix anything.
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~jeffski/new_to_lirc.txt This might be helpful --- Mike Isely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Ryan Schmitz wrote: > > > Ok, > > > > So I made some changes, but I'm still not any > closer to a solution > > unfortunately. > > > > I used the commands you suggested: > > mknod /dev/lirc0 c 61 0 > > ln -s /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc > > > > And now I have this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# ls -l /dev/lir* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 29 22:06 > /dev/lirc -> /dev/lirc0 > > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 61, 0 Dec 29 22:05 > /dev/lirc0 > > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Dec 29 22:09 > /dev/lircd > > Actually, I thought he said you needed to create > "/dev/lirc/0" not > "/dev/lirc0" (note the extra level of directory). > > As for whether it should actually *be* /dev/lirc0 or > /dev/lirc/0, I > think it would be better if your lircd actually > looked for the right > file rather than trying to hack something into /dev > which is just going > to go away the next time you reboot (because that > whole area is a tmpfs > file system and udev is going to reinitialize > everything when it starts > up again). Unfortunately I'm not an FC user so I'm > not sure of the > specifics there. Generically (or at least > Debian-ish) speaking however, > I have a /etc/lirc/hardware.conf file on my system > and in there, the > lircd daemon is programmed with the name of the > device file to open. > For example I see in my hardware.conf this line: > > DEVICE="/dev/lirc0" > > These issues really have nothing to do with the > pvrusb2 driver. It's an > lirc / distro problem here. Have you googled around > for info on this? > > -Mike > > > -- > | Mike Isely > | PGP fingerprint > Spammers Die!! | > | 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 > | isely @ pobox (dot) com > | 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 > | > | > _______________________________________________ > pvrusb2 mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
