Firewire on Linux-2.4.20

[Richard B. Johnson]

Hello FIREWIRE gurus!

I am trying to get Linux-2.4.20 running!  I need the
IEEE1394 PCILYNX module working. The configuration has
strangely changed since linux-2.4.18 so the required
object file becomes an 8-byte text file!

Script started on Tue Mar 11 14:15:40 2003
# pwd
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/drivers/ieee1394
# ls -la pcilynx.o
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            8 Mar 11 14:12 pcilynx.o
# cat pcilynx.o
!<arch>
# exit
exit

Script done on Tue Mar 11 14:16:15 2003

I haven't a clue how to fix this. Does anybody know?
Here is the relevant parts of ".config" 

#
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
CONFIG_IEEE1394=m

#
# Device Drivers
#
CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX_LOCALRAM=y
CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX_PORTS=y
CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=m

#
# Protocol Drivers
#
# CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394 is not set
CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m
# CONFIG_IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG is not set

#
# I2O device support
#
CONFIG_I2O=m
CONFIG_I2O_PCI=m
CONFIG_I2O_BLOCK=m
CONFIG_I2O_LAN=m
CONFIG_I2O_SCSI=m
CONFIG_I2O_PROC=m

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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