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trougnouf

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Registered: 2022-12-03

Posts: 10

lirc_sir driver missing?

Hello all,

I'm trying to configure my ACTiSYS ACT-IR100UD-v3 USB to IrDA SIR adapter (to control the volume on my Nubert speakers). It's not officially supported by LIRC but it looks like it would likely work like their other IrDA SIR adapters (with a bult-in USB adapter).

From https://www.lirc.org/html/table.html#irda it looks like I need the lirc_sir driver, they even mention doing

modprobe lirc_sir

.
However this kernel module does not seem to exist:

[trougnouf@bd ~]$ sudo modprobe lirc_sir
modprobe: FATAL: Module lirc_sir not found in directory /lib/modules/6.11.2-zen1-1-zen

Similarly trying to read my remote with mode2 and this driver I get

[trougnouf@bd ~]$ sudo mode2 -d /dev/ttyUSB0 -H lirc_sir
[sudo] password for trougnouf: 
Driver `lirc_sir' not found. (Missing -U/--plugins option?)

Available drivers:
accent           alsa_usb         asusdh           atilibusb        atwf83           audio_alsa       awlibusb         bte              bw6130           commandir        creative         creative_infracd default          
devinput         dfclibusb        dsp              dvico            ea65             file             ftdi             ftdix            girs             i2cuser          irlink           irtoy            livedrive_midi   
livedrive_seq    logitech         macmini          mouseremote      mouseremote_ps2  mp3anywhere      mplay            mplay2           pcmak            pinsys           pixelview        samsung          sb0540           
silitek          sonyir           srm7500libusb    tira             tira_raw         udp              uirt2            uirt2_raw        usb_uirt_raw     usbx             zotac            

Any insight?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,868

Re: lirc_sir driver missing?

It was removed as broken in 5.16 in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke … 223bae793f.