They are slightly easier than the ethernet cards. Basically plug them in and flash the firmware (if it isn't already supplied with the right one)
As a first check, plug it in and run the following at the command line
Code:
halrun
loadrt hostmot2
loadrt hm2_pci
That should load the drivers (and print out some useful information, in general)
Then:
Will give a good idea what HAL pins (and hence functions) are in the firmware.
If you actually want to (manualy) switch the states of pins etc then there is a bit more to do (load a realtime thread, add the read/write functions to that). But you probably want to try the setup wizards and build a config at that point.
Having a quick fiddle, it doesn't look like pncconf knows abiout the 5i24 _or_ the 7i36 so there will be some manual tweaking (probably pretend you have a 7i53 and then edit the CARD string in the INI to match.
We will be able to help once you have the outline of a somewhat-close config set up.