Mesa 7i96 Ethernet board

Hi guys!

First of all i'm from Poland and also newbie on this forum, however using linuxcnc for quite long time.
Recently i bought 7i96 card and planning to play around with it first. (only LPT experience before).
From what i understood 7i96 doesn't fully supported yet by linuxcnc so hopefully this thread will grow and be useful for other 7i96 users.
From myself can't bring much to community as a developer, but have some hardware which can be used for testing linuxcnc and 7i96.
That's enough for intro , time for questions.

From what i get here my first steps should be installing Debian 7 with preempt kernel and manual for that is quite clear so planning to play with that soon.
Is there anything else i can do with my 7i96 and installed as above linuxcnc at this moment? Was looking for other threads about this card and not much found.

Thank you!
debian installed - no trouble, instruction is very clear and nice.
card is talking, however it says unrecognized :/
have to wait until smart guys implement it.

It should still work (I have a 7I96 working here with linuxcnc)
The only thing that will not work yet are the 6 isolated outputs

PCW,
is there any trick?
i don't have 7i96 on the list in PNCconf

Probably the easiest thing to do to make a hal for a simple step/dir system and edit it by hand
for example you could use pncconf and choose a 5i25/probrxf2 config, set up the step timing and whatnot and the edit the resulting
hal file by
1. Globally changing "5i25" to "7i96"
2. Changing the

loadrt hm2_pci line to

loadrt hm2_eth board_ip=10.10.10.10

ok, that's the clue, thank you.
will try that in next free time slot
finishing machine now so any free time is eaten by that

I just ordered a 7i96 and THCAD from mesa before reading this. Do you any idea when the 6 isolated outputs problem be corrected or should I send it back and get the 7i76e? I'd love to fix it myself but just don't know this stuff well enough. I'm building a CNC Plasma table and should be ready for the control part in about 2 weeks. Thanks!