Problems applying the patch

[Michael S. (a. M. S. <mi...@mi...>]

I am using RedHat Linux 7.0 with a 2.2.16 kernel.

following the instructions exactly, I have:
     cd /usr/src/
     downloaded ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223
     ln -s linux-2.2.16/ linux-2.2
     zcat ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223 | patch -p1

It tells me:
     [root@pancakes src]# zcat ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223 | patch -p1
     can't find file to patch at input line 4
     Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
     The text leading up to this was:
     --------------------------
     |diff -ruN linux-2.2.orig/CREDITS linux-2.2/CREDITS
     |--- linux-2.2.orig/CREDITS     Sat Dec 23 03:54:34 2000
     |+++ linux-2.2/CREDITS  Sat Dec 23 03:56:18 2000
     --------------------------
     File to patch:

What do I do?  Here is what I have in my directory.
[root@pancakes src]# ls -l
total 108
-rw-rw-r--    1 mike     mike  87909 Feb  1 17:31 ieee1394-2.2.18-20001223
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      12 Sep 25 13:49 linux -> linux-2.2.16
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root      13 Feb  1 17:43 linux-2.2 -> linux-2.2.16/
drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root     4096 Jan 31 23:02 linux-2.2.16
drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root     4096 Jan 31 23:02 linux-2.2.16.old
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root     4096 Sep 25 13:54 redhat

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Thank you in advance,
Mike Spice (Michael Spiceland) - http://www.mikespice.com
KLUG President (Knoxville Linux User Group) - http://web.utk.edu/~klug
IgWig Solutions (owner) - http://www.mikespice.com/igwig/