[darkattraction]

Code:

~$ uname -r
2.6.28-15-generic

~$ find /lib/modules/ -iname 'lirc*.ko'    
..
/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/updates/dkms/lirc_dev.ko                              
/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/updates/dkms/lirc_it87.ko
..
/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/misc/lirc_dev.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/misc/lirc_it87.ko

Asle

as you can notice you have twice lirc_dev and lirc_it87
so when you try to mount these modules, you charge the wrong ones I think ..
copy the old one as lirc_dev.ko.old and lirc_it87.ko.old (you can check the path by doing modprobe -v lirc_it87 for example) and replace them by the new ones (those that are in the other path)

be careful, before doing that unload the previous modules if they are already in memory by doing

Code:

modprobe -r lirc_dev
modprobe -r lirc_it87

I hope I was clear and you will succeed to make your remote working