[Chris230291]

Hello. I have a serial to USB dongle that I have connected an IR receiver LED to. I have no idea how it works but when I hit buttons on a remote the LED's on the dongle blink, so the dongle appears to work.
My question is how do I set this up to work with XBMCbuntu?

Following the guide here ...http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Setup_Lirc ... When I enter "aclocal && autoheader && autoconf" I get...

command not found

If I carry on, ignoring that message and enter "./configure --with-x --with-driver=serial", It says...

You will have to use the lirc_serial kernel module. Now enter 'make' and 'make install' to compile and install the package.

So I enter "make && sudo make install", it shows the following...

root@Chris-HTPC:/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a# make && sudo make install
cd . \
&& CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h \
/bin/bash ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing default-1 commands
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a'
Making all in drivers
make[2]: Entering directory `/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers'
Making all in lirc_dev
make[3]: Entering directory `/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev'
cp ./../lirc_dev/Module*.symvers .
cp: cannot stat `./../lirc_dev/Module*.symvers': No such file or directory
make[3]: [lirc_dev.o] Error 1 (ignored)
mv Makefile Makefile.automake
cp ./../Makefile.kernel Makefile
CPPFLAGS="" CFLAGS="" LDFLAGS="" \
make -C /lib/modules/3.5.0-46-generic/build/ SUBDIRS=/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev modules \
KBUILD_VERBOSE=1
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-46-generic'
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo; \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev
gcc -Wp,-MD,/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/.lirc_dev.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.7/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-46-generic/arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated -Iinclude -include /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-46-generic/include/linux/kconfig.h -Iubuntu/include -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -maccumulate-outgoing-args -Wa,-mtune=generic32 -ffreestanding -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -pg -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -DIRCTL_DEV_MAJOR=61 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/. -I/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/ -I/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/../.. -I/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/../.. -I/lib/modules/3.5.0-46-generic/build//include/ -I/lib/modules/3.5.0-46-generic/build//drivers/media/video/ -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(lirc_dev)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(lirc_dev)" -c -o /etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/.tmp_lirc_dev.o /etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c
/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:35:28: fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[5]: *** [/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [_module_/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-46-generic'
make[3]: *** [lirc_dev.o] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers/lirc_dev'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a/drivers'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/etc/lirc/lirc-0.8.4a'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Then when I run "irrecord --driver=serial --device=/dev/ttyS0 MyRemote", I get...

Driver `serial' not supported.
Supported drivers:
accent
alsa_usb
asusdh
atilibusb
atwf83
audio
audio_alsa
awlibusb
bte
bw6130
commandir
creative
creative_infracd
default
devinput
dfclibusb
dsp
dvico
ea65
ftdi
i2cuser
irlink
irman
livedrive_midi
livedrive_seq
logitech
macmini
mp3anywhere
mplay
mplay2
mouseremote
mouseremote_ps2
null
pcmak
pinsys
pixelview
samsung
sb0540
silitek
srm7500libusb
tira
tira_raw
udp
uirt2
uirt2_raw
usb_uirt_raw
usbx

Can anyone suggest where I go from here?

Cheers,
Chris.

[nickr]

You can't connect a ir receiver direct to a usb-serial convertor. Buy a proper usb receiver.

[Chris230291]

Arh OK. Thanks.

[taylorb9301]

Hi, I have the same problem, but I use a serial IR receiver(http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html) with an internal COM port on my motherboard.
I follow the instructions on this site: "http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Set_up_Lirc", but after the "user@computer:~/lirc-0.8.4a$ ./configure --with-x --with-driver=serial" line i get some warnings(for example: seems to ignore ... setting), and after the "user@computer:~/lirc-0.8.4a$ make && sudo make install" line I get an error message: "Driver 'serial' not supported".
I'm new in linux, and in English too. Sorry about this.

Thanks.

[nickr]

Why bother with serial when usb receivers are so cheap and available? Home made serial lirc is so 1997. Where are you proposing to even find a serial port? And why are you using lirc 0.84 when the latest is 0.92?

[taylorb9301]

I use the serial receiver because I have a gigabyte gaj1800nd2h motherboard and the 2 internal usb and the lpt port is used.
I use 0.84 because on the official site in the installation section I read about that.
I hope I can make it work. Can you help me please?

[nickr]

I have to say that on my ubuntu precise install, the serial driver seems to be included in the lirc package. Why don't you try that first?

[decaturguy]

USB-RS232 Serial Converter won't work, you need a motherboard with serial port. Before i bought my first USB MCE receiver about 3 years ago I've been using ASUS motherboard
it didn't came by default with serial port connector i had to buy it and activate the port in BIOS.

If you have a computer with serial port and your com numbers is not com1 (replace "com3" with your computers com number)

Code:

./configure --enable-sandboxed --prefix=/usr --with-driver=com3

If you successfully build the module install and load the module

Code:

modprobe lirc_serial

I haven't tried it in years i hope nothing changed.

[nickr]

Taylorb9301 does have a serial port on his motherboard.

Taylor just try the ubuntu package for a start huh?