[mythtv-users] Help setting up IR Blaster

[Nick]

On 16/12/05, Jon Hoyt <jonhoyt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm using Knoppmyth and I've been trying to set up an IR Blaster to
> change channels on my Dish Network receiver. I've been using the
> How-To at:
>
> http://losdos.dyndns.org:8080/public/mythtv-info/MythTV_DISH_IR_LED_TX_via_Modified_LIRC.html
>
> All of the compiling in stage 1 went relatively smoothly, and stage 2
> was going well until I tried to install the ledxmit_serial module:
>
>  root at mythtv:/home/mythtv# /sbin/modprobe ledxmit_serial
>  FATAL: Error inserting ledxmit_serial
> (/lib/modules/2.6.13.2-chw-3/misc/ledxmit_serial.ko): Device or
> resource busy
>
> I don't know too much about this but I'm guessing something is already
> using com1? I only have one serial port.
>
> I've asked on the Knoppmyth forum, too, but I know there are a lot of
> geniuses on this list so I figured I'd post here too.  Anyone know how
> to troubleshoot this or work around it?

Have you run something like:

/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none

to make sure the serial port is free before trying to load the ledxmit driver?

Nick