firmware for 7i97 mesa card

I would like to know if there are any updates available so i can use 7i97 ethernet card.
as things stand right now I can ping 192.168.1.121 however, if I try "mesaflash --device 7i97 --readhmid" I get firmware not supported for device.
mesa seems to not have any support software for this card but is listed as linuxcnc supported board

The 7I97 has generic firmware installed, so will work as-is
I will make additional firmware files that support various daughter cards
but these are not done yet

You need the latest mesaflash to recognize the 7i97:
github.com/jethornton/mesaflash

Currently for full operation with linuxCNC you will need to build LinuxCNC from source
and incorporate some 7I97 specific patches

Thank you for quick response!
I cloned link you provided, however I am so new with linux I am not sure how to apply this download. gethub quickstart instructions are unclear to me beyond git clone.
the 7i97 is still coming up as unsupported in terminal even though there is mention to the 7i97 in the mesaflash files like anyio.c.
your patience would be appreiciated

Did you go through the Quickstart instructions including the

sudo make install

step?

that is were i am stuck ,
lagun@1:~$ cd mesaflash
lagun@1:~/mesaflash$
where do Igo from here?
lagun@1:~/mesaflash$ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.

did you run make first?

ok progress made!
lagun@1:~/mesaflash$ cd mesaflash
lagun@1:~/mesaflash/mesaflash$ make
now make is acknowledged
lagun@1:~/mesaflash/mesaflash$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for lagun:
install --mode=0755 --owner root --group root --dir /bin
install --mode=0755 --owner root --group root mesaflash /bin
lagun@1:~/mesaflash/mesaflash$
so then I try
lagun@1:~/mesaflash/mesaflash$ mesaflash --device 7i97 --readhmid
ERROR: Unsupported device 7I97
lagun@1:~/mesaflash/mesaflash$
should i restart pc ?

Thats odd, I get

peter@dc7800:~/Downloads/mesaflash-3.4$ mesaflash --device 7i97 --readhmid
No 7I97 board found
(which makes sense since I dont have a 7I97 here)

rebooting should not make any difference

Sounds like you are still running an old version, what does

mesaflash --help

print?

lagun@1:~/mesaflash/mesaflash$ mesaflash --help
Syntax:
mesaflash --device device_name [options]
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --write filename
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --verify filename
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --program filename
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --readhmid
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --reload | --reset
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --sserial
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --rpo address
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --wpo address=value
mesaflash --device device_name [options] --set ip=n.n.n.n
mesaflash --info file_name
mesaflash --help

Options:
--device select active device name. If no command is given it will detect board with given name and print info about it.
--addr <device_address>
select <device address> for looking for <device_name> (network C mask for ethernet boards, serial port for USB boards)
--addr_hi set the high register address for the EPP interface
--epp use EPP interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64)
--usb use USB interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64)
--spi use SPI interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64)
--serial use serial interface to connect to board, only for boards with multiple interfaces (7i43, 7i90, 7i64)
--fallback use the fallback area of the EEPROM while executing commands
--recover access board using PCI bridge GPIO (currently only 6I25)
--xml format output from 'readhmid' command into XML
--verbose print detailed information while running commands

Commands:
--write writes a standard bitfile 'filename' configuration to the userarea of the EEPROM (IMPORTANT! 'filename' must be VALID FPGA configuration file)
--fix-boot-block If a write operation does not detect a valid boot block, write one
--no-auto-verify Don't automatically verify after writing
--verify verifies the EEPROM configuration against the bitfile 'filename'
--program writes a standard bitfile 'filename' configuration to the FPGA (IMPORTANT! 'filename' must be VALID FPGA configuration file)
--readhmid print hostmot2 configuration in PIN file format
--reload do full FPGA reload from flash (only ethernet and pci boards)
--reset do full firmware reset (only ethernet boards)
--sserial print full information about all sserial remote boards
--rpo read hostmot2 variable directly at 'address'
--wpo write hostmot2 variable directly at 'address' with 'value'
--set set board IP address in eeprom to n.n.n.n (only ethernet boards)
--info print info about configuration in 'file_name'
--help print this help message
lagun@1:~/mesaflash/mesaflash$

Yep that is the old version

Not the version I get when i run the quickstart instructions at

github.com/jethornton/mesaflash

(just redid this)