[ATrpms-users] Fedora 8 and lirc

[Marvin Match]

Using Fedora 8 x86 64, Athlon 64 on an nVidia-based MOBO, I did this, 
which is right out of Jarod's Myth(tv)ology guide:

# yum -y install lirc-kmdl-$KVER
# yum -y install lirc

Which installed 3 files, no errors messages.

Then added these lines to /etc/modprobe.conf, since I'm using a 
serial reciever on the first serial port:

alias char-major-61 lirc_serial
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3f8
install lirc_serial /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none ;\
    /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_serial

then tried to start it with:

# /sbin/service lircd start

I got no OK's and the only messages in /var/messages that relate to 
lirc say that yum installed it. /usr/bin/irw won't run, says "no such 
file or directory" and sure enough, I can't find it there or anywhere 
else.

What am I missing? I've done this a hundred times on prior 
installations going back to RedHat 9, and never had a problem getting 
lirc to run. I know I'll feel like an idiot when somebody points out 
my mistake.

Marvin