Problems w/Streamzap on FC4

I need help installing and configuring lirc on a new Fedora Core 4
system using a Streamzap remote.  The system is an AMD64 box. 


I've been following Jorad's wonderful Myth TV on Fedora HOW TO document.  Thank you,  Jarod!


Everything has worked great until I tried to implement lirc with
Streamzap drivers.  After I installed lirc using yum as directed,
I tried to do a modprobe litc_streamzap and go a fatal error saying
that driver was unknown.


So I did a "yum remove lirc", followed by a "yum remove lirc-kmdl-$KVER".  


Then I downloaded the lirc-0.8.0 tarball from lirc.org.  After
extracting, I ran setup.sh and selected the Streamzap remote, then ran
configure, make and make install.


Next I ran "chmod 666 /dev/lir*".


Then I ran "modprobe lirc_streamzap" followed by "modprobe
"lirc_dev".  (The lirc.org documentation says I need both drivers.)


Next I edited /etc/modprobe.conf and inserted the line "alias char-major-61 lirc_streamzap" at the end of the file.


Everything seemed good so far.  No error messages.


Next, I ran "/sbin/service lircd start" and received error message "lircd: unrecognized service".


Undeterred, I tried "mode2", which told me:

mode2: error opening /dev/lirc
mode2: No such device

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling.  Same results.


"/sbin/modprobe -l | grep lirc" shows:

/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4/misc/lirc_streamzap.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4/misc/lirc_dev.ko

"/sbin/lsmod | grep lirc" tell me:

lirc_streamzap         49540  0
lirc_dev               50656  1 lirc_streamzap

"dmesg | grep lirc" gives me:

lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
usbcore: registered new driver lirc_streamzap
lirc_streamzap $Revision: 1.15 $ registered

"ls -l /dev/lir*" shows:

crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 61, 0 Feb 22 20:23 /dev/lirc
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Feb 22 06:10 /dev/lircd
prw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Feb 22 06:07 /dev/lircm

I been fighting this for many days.  I've read boatloads of posts
about lirc and tried everything that seemed related; but nothing has
changed the mode2 error message.   If I could get mode2 to
run, I am sure I could fix the mssing sbin directory entry and run irw
successfully.


Help please!