Echoaudio audiofire12 success?

[Scott]

I have a laptop with the following firewire hardware:

    ~$ lspci
    ...
    03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller

Running on the following kernel:

    ~$ uname -a
    Linux studio 2.6.27-3-rt #1 PREEMPT RT Mon Oct 27 03:05:19 UTC 2008 
i686 GNU/Linux

I followed the instructions in the wiki with regard to configuring 
real-time support 
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation).

I had to create /dev/raw1394 via the following command:

    ~$ sudo mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0

I started jackd from the command line and the following errors are returned:

~$ /usr/bin/jackd -R -P60 -p128 -dfirewire -r48000 -p64 -n3
no message buffer overruns
jackd 0.109.2
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver ..
03095556441:  (ffado.cpp)[  92] ffado_streaming_init: libffado 1.999.40- 
built Nov 22 2008 23:12:02
libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 8.
You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node.
libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 9.
You may need to manually set the channel on the transmitting node.
firewire ERR: Could not start streaming threads: -1
DRIVER NT: could not start driver
cannot start driver
jackd watchdog: timeout - killing jackd
no message buffer overruns


I've googled these errors to death.  Based on my report above can anyone 
help narrow down the scope of my problem?

-Scott