Laptop CIR Transceiver & Lirc Problem

[krisstaar]

I have an ene0100 chipset. Does anyone know of a driver I can use, and how to set it up so I can use my CIR-reciever?

[sokairyk]

After updating to Ubuntu 9.04 and following the same procedure everything was working except irexec.

lircd was created in /dev/ with the correct permissions and irw was working just fine with the lircd.conf file in my /etc/ but I had to define the socket (I had to run: irw /dev/lircd)

The problem was that irexec does not have an argument to specify a socket, so I looked a bit at config.h in the sources and I found out that the default socket which irexec looks for is /var/run/lirc/lircd

Then all I had to do was to change the script in /etc/init.d/ to this:

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting lirc daemon:"
    echo -n " lircd"
    echo -n " "
    if [ ! -d /var/run/lirc ]
    then
        mkdir /var/run/lirc
    fi
    LIRCD_ARGS=' --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd --permission=666 --device=/dev/lirc0 /etc/lircd.conf'
    start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/local/sbin/lircd -- $LIRCD_ARGS
    echo ""
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping lirc daemon:"
    echo -n " lircd"
    echo -n ""
    start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/local/sbin/lircd
    if [ -d /var/run/lirc ]
    then
        rm -rf /var/run/lirc
    fi
    echo " "
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/lircd {start|stop}"
    exit 1
esac

exit 0

and everything was back to normal

Also for some reason I had to create the folder lirc in /var/run/ otherwise the lirc daemon wouldn't start because it couldn't create the folder even when running the script with root permissions.

Anyway if someone had a problem with Ubuntu 9.04 I hope this helped.

[daehenoc]

I've got an Acer Aspire 5920G as well, I am going to try installing Karmic Koala Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha5 on it this weekend and see if the kernel module and lirc version work correctly for this hardware

(Here is a search on packages.ubuntu.com for wpc8796l in all filenames: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?se...armic&arch=any

[FokkerCharlie]

Cool- works for me!

[FokkerCharlie]

Actually, it works until I suspend:

After that, there's no output from irw, sudo mode2 returns:

$ sudo mode2
mode2: could not get file information for /dev/lirc
mode2: default_init(): No such file or directory

I can stop/start the script in init.d OK, but no joy. However, the modules do seem to be loaded (starting / stopping by the script doesn't make a difference to this)

$ lsmod | grep lirc
lirc_wpc8769l           9936  0 
lirc_dev               13992  1 lirc_wpc8769l

After a reboot, all is well. So any idea what's going on here?

Charlie