LIRC - not working - strange!

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Cannot get lirc to work and the problem seems to be that the created symlink called “ir” (/dev/input/ir) links to lircmd (the lirc mouse) instead of to lirc_dev
How correct?

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Would appreciate help:

linux-k0ed:~ # ls -l /dev/input
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    220 Nov 23 14:18 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    260 Nov 23 14:18 by-path
crw------- 1 root root 13, 64 Nov 23 14:18 event0
crw------- 1 root root 13, 65 Nov 23 14:18 event1
crw------- 1 root root 13, 74 Nov 23 14:18 event10
crw------- 1 root root 13, 75 Nov 23 14:18 event11
crw------- 1 root root 13, 76 Nov 23 14:18 event12
crw------- 1 root root 13, 77 Nov 23 14:18 event13
crw------- 1 root root 13, 78 Nov 23 14:18 event14
crw------- 1 root root 13, 79 Nov 23 14:18 event15
crw------- 1 root root 13, 80 Nov 23 14:18 event16
crw------- 1 root root 13, 66 Nov 23 14:18 event2
crw------- 1 root root 13, 67 Nov 23 14:18 event3
crw------- 1 root root 13, 68 Nov 23 14:18 event4
crw------- 1 root root 13, 69 Nov 23 14:18 event5
crw------- 1 root root 13, 70 Nov 23 14:18 event6
crw------- 1 root root 13, 71 Nov 23 14:18 event7
crw------- 1 root root 13, 72 Nov 23 14:18 event8
crw------- 1 root root 13, 73 Nov 23 14:18 event9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      7 Nov 23 14:18 ir -> event16
crw------- 1 root root 13, 63 Nov 23 14:18 mice
crw------- 1 root root 13, 32 Nov 23 14:18 mouse0
crw------- 1 root root 13, 33 Nov 23 14:18 mouse1
crw------- 1 root root 13, 34 Nov 23 14:18 mouse2
crw------- 1 root root 13, 35 Nov 23 14:18 mouse3


linux-k0ed:~ # cat /proc/bus/input/devices
....
I: Bus=0001 Vendor=0070 Product=9002 Version=0001
N: Name="cx88 IR (Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T"
P: Phys=pci-0000:06:05.2/ir0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:06:05.2/rc/rc0/input16
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event15 
B: PROP=0
B: EV=100013
B: KEY=10afc312 214201700000000 0 118000 41a800004801 9e16c000000000 10000ffc
B: MSC=10


I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (cx88xx)"
P: Phys=/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input17
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd mouse3 event16 
B: PROP=0
B: EV=100017
B: KEY=30000 7 ff87207ac14057ff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
B: REL=3
B: MSC=10

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