Everything installed flawlessly and I was watching TV in minutes. The only issue I'm having right now is that I can't get my serial port IR receiver to work. I know the reciever and the remote I'm using are good (tested on a Windows box), but no signals are being received from the Myth box. I decided to build lirc from source and install it and I can get the lirc_serial module loaded, but when I run the mode2 program it does nothing - it runs, but no signals are received. Has anyone got this going?

Help appreciated.

Here are my notes from getting my serial receiver working. I am somewhat of a newbie so there are probably extra steps or better ways of doing this but mine is working.

Before upgrading, I copied lircrc and lircd.conf to /myth so it would be kept.
cp /myth/lircrc /etc/lirc/lircrc/
cp /myth/lircd.conf /etc/lirc

lirc-reconfig.sh

I wasn't sure what the lirc-reconfig script did so I also did this:
wget lirc-0.7.1 from whereever it is on the net
tar jxf lirc-0.7.1.tar.bz2
cd lirc-0.7.1
./configure
make
make install

in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh added these three lines:
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
modprobe lirc_serial
/usr/local/sbin/lircd
(this is what made everything work once machine was rebooted)

update-modules (not sure why I do this)
reboot