Problem with Remote and lirc

[murbanci]

I just tried installing a remote (ATI) on my mythbuntu machine. I had it working when i ran irw but never got it to do anything when i had the mythtv frontend running. After restarting the computer irw would not run. I would get a message like connection refused. I tried uninstalling lirc and reinstalling but this did not work. What do i need to do to get the remote working? Any help would be appreciated, i am a complete n00b. Thanks.

When i try to reconfigure the remote from the terminal this is the output that i get:

murbanci@MythTV_Box1:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc
Stopping lirc daemon: lircmd lircd.
* Reloading kernel event manager...
...done.
################################################## ###
## I couldn't load the required kernel modules ##
## You should install lirc-modules-source to build ##
## kernel support for your hardware. ##
################################################## ###
## If this message is not appropriate you may set ##
## LOAD_MODULES=false in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf ##
################################################## ###
Starting lirc daemon:.

[murbanci]

I tried reinstalling mythbuntu and setting up the remote durring the initial steup, however when i run irw i get connection refused.