Apps :: Kernel 2.4.26 make config for Comedi ???

as newbie i'm trying to install a Comedi device driver for a PC104 DAC card on my Geode 200mhz board.
found DSL a view days ago and would like to use it as data logger with this DAC card.

i did the following:
1. installad DSL on a IDE-CF Card 2 GB on hdc1 with dsl-hdinstall
2. got linux-2.4.26.tar form kernel.org
3. got kernelsource.dsl
4. sudo tar -xvf linux-2.4.26.tar
5. sudo tar -zxvf kernelsource.dsl
6. trying to make config or make menuconfig or make xconfig always ended with (as sudo under /usr/src and /usr/src/linux)
make:**** No rule to make target `config'. Stop.

i have a Makefile 361byte long, a .config 42kb long and .version in /usr/src and in /usr/src/linux

under /usr/src i have two patch files knoppix-kernel.patch and knoppix-kerenl26.patch

hope to get help from dsl-linux guru

walter