IR receiver troubleshooting

I will make another attempt to get my pinnacle remote / IR receiver to work.

The remote is the same as the MS MCE, the problem is the receiver.

I am struggling to find information but I now found this

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1117200.html

This should list the device:

ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*

another link with debug instr

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-967339.html

If the device is detected as keyboard/mouse instead of RC it will show up here:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices