You will have to use the lirc_mceusb2 kernel module.

Now enter 'make' and 'make install' to compile and install the package.

[root@viki lirc-0.8.0]# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0'
Making all in drivers
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers'
Making all in lirc_dev
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_dev'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_dev'
Making all in lirc_mceusb2
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2'
mv Makefile Makefile.automake
cp ../Makefile.kernel Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2139_FC5/build/ SUBDIRS=/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2 modules \
        KBUILD_VERBOSE=1
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2139_FC5-i686'
mkdir -p /home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/.tmp_versions
rm -f /home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/.tmp_versions/*
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2
  gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/.lirc_mceusb2.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -include include/linux/autoconf.h  -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -pipe -msoft-float -fno-builtin-sprintf -fno-builtin-log2 -fno-builtin-puts  -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -march=i686 -mtune=generic -mtune=generic -mregparm=3 -ffreestanding -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -DIRCTL_DEV_MAJOR=61 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/../.. -I/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2139_FC5/build//include/  -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(lirc_mceusb2)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(lirc_mceusb2)" -c -o /home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/.tmp_lirc_mceusb2.o /home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/lirc_mceusb2.c
/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/lirc_mceusb2.c:588: error: unknown field âownerâ specified in initializer
/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/lirc_mceusb2.c:588: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[5]: *** [/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2/lirc_mceusb2.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [_module_/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2139_FC5-i686'
make[3]: *** [lirc_mceusb2.o] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers/lirc_mceusb2'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0/drivers'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/lirc-0.8.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2