External Keyboard-Pedal to control Logics' Wah-effect?

I have a Roland FP-7 Keyboard connected to my Mac (via Midi and a M-Audio ProFire 610 box). The keyboard has three pedal inputs (damper, FC1 and FC2). In FC 2 I have a Roland EV-5 expression pedal. With this pedal I would like to control a wah-wah-effect in logic (I play a clavinet sound on my keyboard). How can I tell Logic to use this pedal as the wah-wah-controller?
Any help is greatly appreciated because I am quite new to Logic!
Thanks a lot...

Ahh, if it's sending volume ( CC7 ) then you going to have to transform that from the environment window before it'll work for starters.
OK, go to environment/clicks and ports
add a new transformer, you should see physical on the left of the screen it should show your pedal as one of the outputs, click on that output and it should give you a cable, plug that cable into the in of the transformer, now look at this diagram and set the cabling and transformer parameters up exactly like it. You open the transformer parameters by double clicking the icon:
If you have trouble reading this diagram, double click it and it'll take you to flickr then click on all sizes to make it bigger.
This should now convert CC7 ( volume ) to CC10 so you can assign it to automation and use it as in my first comment.

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