lirc is the Linux Infrared Remote Control driver.

Serial remotes

If you have a serial port remote, you might need to create a character device for lirc to use: mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0 . You should possibly use a udev rule for this.

Device or resource busy loading remote

# sudo setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none

(replace with correct COM port as necessary)

Building Debian/Ubuntu kernel modules

# apt-get install lirc-modules-source
# cd /usr/src
# ln -sf /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ linux
# cd modules/lirc
# sudo debian/rules binary-modules
# dpkg -i /usr/src/lirc-modules-*.deb  # (install the right .deb to taste)

UDev rule

/etc/lirc/rules.d/lirc-rules:

KERNEL=="lirc0", SYMLINK"lirc"=

/etc/lirc/permissions.d/lirc.permissions:

KERNEL=="lirc[0-9dm]*", MODE="0660", GROUP="lirc"