Trouble with a Adaptec 2010S RAID PCI adapter

Hi list, I'm in trouble trying to use a Adaptec 2010S RAID PCI adapter
in a i386 linux box running kernel 2.6.6. I've enabled I2O in the kernel and support for my SCSI adapter, that in fact works fine.

CONFIG_I2O=y
CONFIG_I2O_CONFIG=y
CONFIG_I2O_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_I2O_SCSI=y
CONFIG_I2O_PROC=y

My dmesg shows something like this:

...<snip>...
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
...<snip>...
Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1.2-lk1 Jun 4 2004) ...<snip>...
I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O: Event thread created as pid 20
i2o: Checking for PCI I2O controllers...
i2o: I2O controller on bus 4 at 16.
i2o: PCI I2O controller at FEBFC000 size=16384 i2o/iop0: Installed at IRQ0
i2o: 1 I2O controller found and installed.
Activating I2O controllers...
This may take a few minutes if there are many devices Unable to obtain status of i2o/iop0, attempting a reset. I2O configuration manager v 0.04.
(C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O Block Storage OSM v0.9
(c) Copyright 1999-2001 Red Hat Software.
i2o_block: Checking for Boot device...
i2o_block: Checking for I2O Block devices... i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.1.2
chain_pool: 0 bytes @ f7d11f9c
(512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers)

It seens that the kernel has found the controoler. Then I headed to
http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/ - I2O on Linux Home and got their raidutil package. But here starts the problem, even simple commands like

raidutil -L controller

gives me the error:

Engine connect failed: COMPATIBILITY number osdIOrequest : File /dev/dpti17 Could Not Be Opened

Following the site info I have applied the following patchs to my kernel:

i2o-64-bit-fix.patch
i2o-adaptec-zerochannel-support.patch
i2o-config-clean.patch
i2o-makefile-cleanup.patch
i2o-pae-support.patch
i2o-passthru.patch
i2o_block-cleanup.patch
i2o_cmd_passthru-reorder.patch
i2o_config-checking-bugfix.patch
i2o_proc-full-seq_file.patch
i2o_proc-lct-access-bugfix.patch

with no luck. I've tried Adaptec's asmbe_linux_v1.23.006.tgz tools, but aaccli cannot find the controller as well.

Does anybody experienced a problem like this before? I've found some messages on mailling lists with the same error message, but no solutions. I'm new to I2O. Am I missing something?

tks in advance for any help.

Andre